When The Bombing of Hiroshima is mentioned,

@Bumbles Yet even if they did surrender, the bombings would probably still had happened.

@Bumbles That seems to be the ultimate victim blaming. Their entire culture was based on not surrendering. They could have done nothing to contradict their Emperor.

The US could have stopped at one bomb and waited.

@Zeusdelight the US did wait after one bomb, for three days. That is long enough. The US did not know this at the time, but today there is evidence that Japanese thought was that the US would not be able to produce more than one bomb in a short interval.

@Cyclist Yes 3 days is plenty after such a cataclysmic event as a Bomb of its power exploding over a City, demolishing it in a way that was not understood and with horrific after effects.

I mean a Hurricane hits a city in the US these days and 3 days after, everything is back to order and the Government can reach careful and considered opinions.

3 Days after - LOL.

@Zeusdelight the Japanese had their own nuclear weapons program even though they had not yet produced a bomb. By the end of the first day they had determined Hiroshima had been destroyed by a nuclear bomb. They knew exactly what had happened.

@Cyclist And the city knew a Hurricane had hit it, with technology and communications nearly 80 years more advanced.

Knowing something and coping with it in reality is a little different.

@Cyclist Japan was willing to endure one bomb. Not two.

There is no doubt the bombs saved lives in the aggregate, Japanese and American. It was a cataclysmic horrible tragedy, but one the Japanese chose to endure long after any chance of victory.

@Xalvadora There is no evidence supporting that conclusion.

@Bumbles Or yours. It seems to be simply victim blaming.

@Zeusdelight You are using a cliche, which settles and explains nothing.

@Bumbles Thankyou for such a meaningful response.

@Zeusdelight Cliches and slogans shouldn’t be used in place of rational discourse. You seem incapable of making an actual argument.

The Japanese high command are responsible for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They were not victims.

@Bumbles I did say, "probably."

@Bumbles How are they responsible when they didn't want to lose their Emperor?
It's the USs' fault for not wanting to understand.

@Xalvadora Their empower worship is irrelevant and they didn’t lose him anyway.