Do you think Truman ordering 2 atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in WW2 was...

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...morally right or immoral? 1. Was it right as it stopped the war and saved lives

2. Was inherently immoral, in that it targeted civilians (today, with Geneva conventions it would be ILLEGAL)

I have no opinion and would like opinions
 
hi, if you remember Japan was also one step away from atomic power, had we not used the bomb we more than likely would have lost the war. so yes it was good for us.
now if we look at the position of Japan and the rest of the world because of so called the western world winning, overall things are not to bad. But if we had lost, we can only speculate the outcome.
let us hope that no more fanatics leading towards terrorism starts again, at the moment we have the beginning of this sadly, but i believe that the whole world leaders have the intelligence to learn from the past, as the Geneva Conventions only work if both sides are playing those rules. Good question
 
Dropping the bombs on those two cities saved the lives of countless thousands of American and allied servicemen who would have had to invade the mainland of Japan.

Don't forget that Japan could have surrendered after the Hiroshima bomb but still held out until the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, so the Japanese have to take their fair share of the blame for that!!!

Harry S Truman was a very brave man indeed.
 
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