What's your point of view in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb?

[drkohler]

non-gravity said:

NunedQ said:

i hope everyone agrees that the second one was unnecessary. The threat of a second would have worked just as well...

Japan was unwilling to surrender under US terms.

I believe the Japanese emperor wanted to remain in power.

That is correct. Capitulation talks had been going on for quite a while. The key problem was the status of the japanese emperor (as actual "god" to the Japanese at that time).

I recently saw a documentary where they interviewed the guy that survived the Hiroshima bomb. Without any infrastruture left, he (amongst others) was immediately evacuated to a hospital in  ..... Nagasaki. Talk about bad luck..