Do you think the atomic bombing of hiroshima was justified?
Absolutely not. Never at the time, never in hindsight. It was militarily unnecessary to drop atomic bombs to end WWII. Generals including Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur believed that Japan would’ve surrendered eventually without dropping atomic bombs. Eisenhower believed atomic bombs were not the answer to save American lives and refused to support the idea of killing civilians en masse. MacArthur (who was in charge in the Pacific) believed that Japan would surrender if the Allies simply told Japan that they could keep their emperor after the war. Japan thought that an unconditional surrender meant that their emperor was to stand down and be tried as a war criminal. This was not the case but the Allies failed to tell Japan. Had they done so, MacArthur believed Japan would’ve surrendered much earlier. It was also militarily unnecessary to invade Japan. Generals including Carl Spaatz believed that Japan was in fact hoping for a US invasion because that would mean US casualties w
