You can read all about it here. Way to much info for me to delve into:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_...a_and_Nagasaki
I guess my question is do you think it was right?
And I don't mean by 21st Century thinking!
We need to go back to the 1940's. Estimates were we would have lost over one million americans if we invaded Japan.
Japan did not believe in surrender.
If you were a POW in Japan the Geneva convention didn't mean anything.
They would perform experiments on POWS! Cutting into them while they were alive, injecting horse blood into them.
Starved them. Made them work until they dropped dead!!
I can go on and on of the barbaric things they did!!
Look at the Bataan Death March!!
So folks for me at the time I think it was the right thing to do!!!