SvennoJ on 08 August 2015
It was a barbaric end to a barbaric war.
Many today believe it wasn't necessary, that Japan was already defeated militarily and ready to surrender, not because of the atomic bombs but because Russia also turned against them. Yet in the end it might have prevented world war 3. After seeing the effects of the relatively small nuclear bombs dropped on Japan, no one in their right mind was going to risk all out nuclear war.
Now we're back to killing on a small scale again which still adds up to the same number of deaths over time. At least we're beyond the use of chemical weapons, I think...
