Anniversary of the Hiroshima Bombing

[dazzleman]

Today being the anniversary of the first usage of Nuclear Weapons, I think it will be interesting to see what people think.
You might want to see this link:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/denson7.html
I think that it wasn't the right think to do and there were several better alternatives

       

Such as?  Losing 1 million American soldiers?

We even saved Japanese lives by using the atomic bomb, because the Japanese surrendered faster.

It was without a doubt the right decision.

[dazzleman]

On another note, I wonder whether FDR would have made the same choice as Truman in nuking Hiroshima.

We'll never know.  But it's hard to imagine that Roosevelt wouldn't have made a similar decision when faced with the same facts that Truman was faced with.

Politically, it would have been impossible not to use it.  The American public was in a rabid mood toward the Japanese, and if it was ever discovered,  after we took a million casualties during a conventional invasion of Japan, that we had a superior weapon that could have forced an easier surrender but hadn't been used, the political consequences for the president who made that decision would have been catastrophic.