While Im not going to understate the horrific nature of the nuclear weapon attack on Hiroshima and Nakgasaki I do believe they were an necessary evil to end the war. Its wonderful to look back on the bombing with 20/20 hind sight and say that the Japanese Empire was close to collapse and might have negotiated for surrender. Truth is the militants were never going to let go of power, and it was only the bombing that forced the Emperor to order the leaders to sue for peace with the Allies, and even then factions in the military attempted a coup d'etat.
I could go on but I'll save you the long boring history that I studied, however I do find it odd that people remember the atomic bombing of those two cities but forget the fire bombing of Tokyo where more people died and where misplaced and civilians where directly targeted to be killed in massive numbers.
