in no way condone the fact the 100,000's of innocent people were killed but you can't really jump at the yanks, if they hadn't of done it someone else would have........ its very sad that it had to come to that to end the war.
the Nazi's and japs were shipping uranium and other bomb making gear to each other via submarines for some time during ww2, the Nazi's were brewing heavy water in Telemark and if they hadn't have been defeated then chances are we wouldn't be talking about Hiroshima but talking about London?............. or even talking about it at all for that matter. Everyone was at it and the nuclear arms race after ww2 backs it up, even we had a sh"te attempted at it
i agree that at the end of the day the bombs was dropped to save US troops and its hard to condone that, however, if they had of invaded on foot, how many of the "innocent" civilians would have lifted arms and fought against the yanks? it did happen on a lot of the islands as the yanks moved towards Japan, it would have gone the way Vietnam did with not knowing who is innocent and who is the enemy...... abit like the modern day middle east.
also were innocent people attacked at pearl harbour? there was no war between the two so technically weren't they also innocent?
dropping the bombs must have been one hell of a difficult decision to make
I have a long drive with a hang over and Its not often that i switch on the sensible side of my brain but this thread caught my attention............
so plz don't flame me 