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To answer the question, in my opinion yes it needed to be dropped. Japan had no intentions of surrendering. I have seen and read where the military were training women and children to defend the homeland if and when an invasion took place.
Has anyone seen the Ken Burns series "The War"? It shows footage of Japanese soilders in the Pacific running out of the dugouts with their rifles, only to be shot point blank by the Allies as they did so. No intention of surrendering there.
Their atrocites are unspeakable in most cases. Goggle Unit 731 and see what they were doing. If not here's one I found. An American Allied Air Corp crewman walked into an operating room thinking that he was going to have his wound worked on by the Japanese doctors, they ended up disecting him alive. One of the assistants came forward many years later and stated that the doctor doing the disecting actually reached into his chest cavity and stopped his heart from beating by hand.
There's one pretty good reason to drop the bomb, in my opinion.
How about all of the be-headings? Live burials? And they say they have honor. Not in my book!
Even though we dropped two bombs on them, I have read that the US hoped that the second one would be enough to convince them to surrender, because the US did not have a third bomb built at the time. But the Japanese did not know that. Good thing they did surrender, or millions more would have died.
Just my opinion based on things I have researched about the "honorable" Japanese.
Regards,
Andy |