Was
the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the right thing to do?
I believe World
war 2 was the wrong thing to do for everyone involved in it. Having said that,
I believe all bets were off in so far as what any of the parties did once it
was going.
The Japanese chose to invade China, rape Shanghai and Nanking, bomb Pearl Harbor, to refuse to surrender when they were given a chance with regards to the bomb being dropped. Those choices were made by the Japanese.
At any point that war could have stopped in the Pacific if the Japanese had chosen to end it.
Meanwhile, the United States was acting and making choices, largely in response to choices made by the Japanese. Each side was acting in what it believed were the best interests of the populations or governments in each country. Neither was considering the best interests of the opposing side. It would be dishonest and unreasonable to expect them to.
The Japanese made the decision to have two bombs dropped on cities it controlled. It didn't have to happen. They could have chosen otherwise. The choice rests firmly on the government of Japan.
To suggest the United States had an obligation to lose a single soldier more than it would have otherwise to obtain a choice from Japan to end the war is contradictory to the entire concept of the times and the situation and has nothing to do with ethics, morals, anything but strategy and tactics with the object of squeezing a specific, narrow choice out of Japan and the leaders the Japanese had chosen to follow in their choices.
Furthermore, every population of every country lives with the consequences of decisions made by the governments of those countries.
The Japanese chose to invade China, rape Shanghai and Nanking, bomb Pearl Harbor, to refuse to surrender when they were given a chance with regards to the bomb being dropped. Those choices were made by the Japanese.
At any point that war could have stopped in the Pacific if the Japanese had chosen to end it.
Meanwhile, the United States was acting and making choices, largely in response to choices made by the Japanese. Each side was acting in what it believed were the best interests of the populations or governments in each country. Neither was considering the best interests of the opposing side. It would be dishonest and unreasonable to expect them to.
The Japanese made the decision to have two bombs dropped on cities it controlled. It didn't have to happen. They could have chosen otherwise. The choice rests firmly on the government of Japan.
To suggest the United States had an obligation to lose a single soldier more than it would have otherwise to obtain a choice from Japan to end the war is contradictory to the entire concept of the times and the situation and has nothing to do with ethics, morals, anything but strategy and tactics with the object of squeezing a specific, narrow choice out of Japan and the leaders the Japanese had chosen to follow in their choices.
Furthermore, every population of every country lives with the consequences of decisions made by the governments of those countries.
References:-
1.
Hiroshima
and Nagasaki." Www.crisismagazine.com. Terry Hall, n.d. Web.
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