Kantor on 19 September 2010
Yes, it was horrible. 300,000 innocent people killed. Quite frankly, it's monstrous.
But you have to look at the situation. 300,000 deaths is still 0.5% of all people who died in the Second World War. It ended the war in the Pacific immediately and allowed all countries to start working towards a steady peace. It would have taken a long time for America to defeat Japan by conventional methods, even with the help of the USSR. And it did bring the Japanese military dictatorship to an end.
So, while it was horrible, it was necessary, and I would have done the same thing in Truman and the generals' places.
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