A Moral War?

[Mr Khan]

halogamer1989 said:

Slimebeast said:
^ One nuclear bomb would have been enough though, I think.

Even at all of the damage and suffering witnessed at Hiroshima, the Japanese government didn't want to surrender.  http://library.thinkquest.org/26742/hiroshima.html#surrender

 

The only reason we did not bomb them more than 2 times is b/c we ran out of nukes.

It's a rather sordid story. Hirohito mostly wanted to surrender before the nukes dropped, Japan knew the writing on the wall. The problem was that the army didn't want to surrender, and Hirohito had let the army (through it's use of right-wing terrorism) grow too powerful in the years before and during the war.

 

As we understood it, the bombings did save lives. We saw a chance to end the war quicker, i'll agree with that, but if we had known the tremendous internal pressure that the Japanese government was under, it could have worked itself out if we had applied pressure in other ways.