[Tripper]

Originally Posted by KTOG

Those are official dates. They were already waning on the Pacific theater, it was n't necessary to vaporize to towns.

I think given the circumstances, it was. Think about the casualties and devastation a full scale invasion of mainland Japan would have caused....

It took them long enough to surrender after being nuked twice, I can imagine they would have resisted more relentlessly than the Germans, and have the Allies push right up through the country before they even considered surrender. This is only speculation, but based on the facts and intelligence, I'd like to think its a pretty fair judgement.

I know what you mean about people not expressing remorse though, it's definitely a horrible thing to have happened. It's an awful part of history....But given the situation of the time, it seems as though it was necessary. I personally can't think, even with the knowledge we have now, of any other possibility that would have worked better.