Those bombs saved more Jap lives than American lives.
After one bomb they still wanted to keep fighting. After two bombs many of them still wanted to keep fighting. A land invasion would have ended when the last farmer’s child was shot down as they rushed the American lines with a pitch fork.
Okinawa was a taste of what would have happened:
14,009 Allied deaths.
77,417 Japanese soldiers dead.
Allied grave registration forces counted 110,071 dead bodies of Japanese soldiers, but this included drafted Okinawans wearing Japanese uniforms.
149,425 Okinawan civilians were killed, committed suicide or went missing, a significant proportion of the estimated pre-war 300,000 local population.
I wonder what these “peace” activists are doing about the Rape of Nanking or untold other episodes by the Japs during WWII?
I’m sure that the Japanese people are better off today than if they had won WWII under their military Emperor rule if it still existed today. (I’m guessing folks have studied and researched that.)
I imagine living in a country where the leaders think training their young men to aim their airplanes at the enemy is a good tactic - probably isn’t the greatest place to live in. (Libya, Afghanistan, etc. are modern examples).
“I wonder what these “peace” activists are doing about the Rape of Nanking or untold other episodes by the Japs during WWII?”
Actually, there’s a pretty substantial “Nanking denier” contingent in Japan.
A lot of them actually believe that Japan was just minding its own business when for no good reason at all America just dropped two bombs on them, which was the worst war crime ever committed.