lol, WHAT????????????
lol, what a silly excuse?
Thousand of Japanese people lost their lives and you say this BOMB (a weapon of mass DESTRUCTION) saved lives?
The US had three options for ending the war.
1. Don't invade and rely on the submarine blockade. The result is mass famine on the Japanese home islands as Japan cannot grow enough food to feed itself. Millions die like in Ethiopia or the Sudan. Of those who survive you get a generation stunted like North Korea and tales of cannibalism. By 1945 japan was out of fuel, had no merchant marine left and the USN was sailing off the coast firing at will. Its people were starving and only weeks from disaster. Never before has a population that large been that close to mass starvation.
2. Invade, based on what Japanese nationals did on Okinawa and Saipan you'd see parents killing their children. Half the Japanese civilian population there died by their own hands. Of those who did not suicide, many would have died caught between the opposing armies or under the rain of bombs and shells. Tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands more would have died in firebombings of Japan's remaining cities as America tried to break the Japanese will.
3. Drop the atomic bombs, it would kill hundreds of thousands but spare millions more outside the city their fate.
BTW, who really cares about Japanese Civilians, Japan murdered somewhere between 30,000,000 and 100,000,000 civilians in its war of aggression. Japan created deliberate famines in Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Singapore....
They experimented on civilians, released plague into China on purpose...
Not to mention the theft and rape. Ask your friends the Chinese what the Japanese are like.
Do you know that millions of Japanese infants were born deformed because of the radiation from those nukes?
Got any proof?
Do you know that even today, many residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have symptoms of Cancer?
people in every modern city have cancer.
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki tumour registries, which have been in operation since 1958, are among the few population-based cancer registries in Japan. This analysis evaluated cancer incidence in Hiroshima and Nagasaki between 1958 and 1987. The overall age-adjusted (World Population Standard) cancer incidence has increased from 217 to 301 per 100,000 among males, and from 176 to 197 per 100,000 among females during the first 30 years of cancer registration.
The most recent rates are intermediate to rates in other countries. Despite a gradual decrease, gastric cancer remained the most common malignancy among males and females throughout the surveillance period, accounting for 24% of all cancers by the late 1980s. The rate of liver cancer has increased dramatically among males during the past 20 years, with a 2-fold increase in incidence in the past 10 years alone. The populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki now have among the highest rates of liver cancer in the world.
Breast cancer incidence in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in contrast, is among the lowest in the world, although incidence rates have doubled since the 1960s. Other common malignancies include cancers of the lung, colon and rectum among males and cancers of the colon, cervix and lung among females.
Cancer incidence in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan,... [Eur J Cancer. 1994] - PubMed result
