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

[Joelcool7]

I myself am totally ashamed of Nato's war with Japan. Here in Canada Japanese citizens were rounded up and put in camps their property ceased and sold. But the bombs in my opinion were the second biggest criminal act in recorded history second only to the Holocaust.

I was taught in my social studies class something that American's aren't taught in theirs. Infact only a small paragraph about it was in my text book. According to my text book in July the Japanese Emperor sent an ambassador to Russia to talk about ending the war with America. At the time Russia was preparing to enter the war and had strong diplomatic ties to the United States. The Japanese Envoy tried to make a deal with the US through Russia. Pretty much a cease and desist deal in which Japan would cease hostilities.

However the United States wasn't satisfied with Japan's change of heart. They decided not to start up talks and not to negotiate an end to the war. Of course Japan also did not publically denounce the war their negotiations were shot down so the emperor continued with the public propaganda.

So a month after Japan tried to make peace the US bombed the living crap out of them, not once but twice.

In my opinion the Nukes were nothing but a show of force. The US government wanted the whole world to know you don't mess with America. They wanted to strike fear into the hearts of the rest of the world. It worked but at what cost? Hundreds of thousands of lives for what? So that American's could feel superior for a little while? That started a major arms race which lead to the cold war.

What if the US never nuked Hiroshima or Nagasaki? Would Russia have felt threatened and rushed into a nuclear arms race with the US. Would China have ever united under communist leadership? Would the Korean war have occured. Infact all of the late 1900's could have been drastically changed in our favour.

The world would have been a far better place for all of us if the US had just started surrender talks and negotiated a cease fire and peace agreement with Japan