[WoofDog123]

"100% of all US critics of Hiroshima were not in uniform in the Pacific in 1945"

I will add that nuking Nagasaki and Hiroshima, forcing an early surrender, saved countless thousands of japanese lives. The death tolls from those bombs weren't too far from normal bombing death tolls of major japanese cities, and there would have been a lot more of that, not to mention the horrid casualties they would have suffered from full american invasion. If the russians had actually helped outside of china, (I am not sure if this would have been likely) they might have ended up with either austria or germany-style division.

This without counting the untold casualties the US would have suffered invading mainland japan.

[FreedomCalls]

I will add that nuking Nagasaki and Hiroshima, forcing an early surrender, saved countless thousands of japanese lives.

Someone once pointed out that if the Japanese military were to have fully carried out their plans for the defense of the Japanese home islands, no Japanese would have been left alive at the end.