Reply #93: John, here's all you have to know:

[SmileyBoy]

1) WWII was the most horrible time in the history of the human species.

2) Considering the circumstances of that horrible time, dropping the A-Bomb was the only necessary way to immediately end this horrible time in humanity.

3) The Japanese were willing to fight the Americans until every single Japanese person on Earth was dead.

4) They would not have cared if 1 million or more American troops died.

5) The war could have dragged on to 1946-47 if the bomb was not dropped.

6) The act of dropping the bomb and the number of innocent civilians killed in that act was unfortunately, due to the circumstances of this tragic period in human history, was the least horrific of all potential outcomes. It's a testament to the horible state of that war when 600,000 dead Japanese was the least deadly thing that could potentially happen.

7) The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were NOT good things. They were NOT events in which we should take pride in. We should be ashamed of it. But can you honestly give me any other circumstance in which less lives (Japanese and American) would be lost???