Was the use of the atomic bomb against Japan justified?

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97. I have been studying this, this year

I have been reading a great deal about the POWs in the Pacific and wondering how Americans could deal with the face of evil facing their loved ones. My grandmother. How did she cope with the fact that her son was a POW of the Japanese at Corregidor knowing about torture and starvation? How did she get through it all? I've asked my aunts, his sisters, but they are too elderly to really remember it all.

From what I can discern, the ancient concept of Bushido, the warrior code, was perverted in the Japanese Imperial Army of the 20th century. Instead of it being an honor code that was humane and moral, it was perverted into a worship of the Emperor that was, indeed, evil.

The fact that not long after the war, America stopped the efforts to prosecute the war criminals and forgave/forgot doesn't help us to resolve this matter in our hearts and minds.