Glance, the whipeing out of two major Japanese cities with millions of normal pepole just like you and me killed was limited collateral damage compared to the saveing of some thousands of lifes of allied soldiers? Erm... how do you reason? Did you reason at all?
And now over to the stopping of the world was thing: NOTE: Thist is something I read at a site on the internet, so if it's true or not is a matter of speculations!
On this site I got the following facts (we can still speculate if they were facts). The USA didn't have to drop the bombs in order to win the war. In fact, the Japanese offered a peace around January 1945 ie about eight months before the bombs were dropped. Their only demand was to keep ther emperor. The US couldn't let them do that! So instead the kept the war running. Somewere in the early months (around Mars Aprill somewere, can't rember when, the official date when the war ended was in September when the Japanese officially surrendered) they captured Berlin and defeated the Germans. Hitler comitted suicide. So, now the major REASON why they built the bomb was deleted (they built it because they thought Hitler was doing the same thing. He was not, if I don't remember wrongly.). And still the sientists said afterwards (unofficial, but still mentioned on this site) that they didn't work harder than the last months of the war (ie after the main reason was deleted). At the same time american soldiers were killed by Japanese soldiers who allso were killed. But still they had to fight on even though they would obviously loose. Because they weren't allowed to surrender. When they finnished the bomb they fired it. On Hiroshima, who wwere wiped out completely. The Japanese were begging, but the US still dropped a second bomb, on Nagasaki. Then the Japanese were allowed to surrender. The reason they weren't allowed to surrender in January was because they whanted to keep the emperor. When they finaly surrendered, in September, they got to keep the emperor anywhay... And you know what the main reason why USA dropped the bomb was? To show up infront ot the Communists ie Sovjet. They whanted to show them that they were in front. When Truman ignored the promises Roseveld (or whatever his predecessor's name was) had given to Stalin, and we had the cold war on our hands. Truman had probably never done that if he hadn't had the bombs. So, the bombs were acually the main reason the cold war started in the first place! (Still, acording to this site, who acually was based on a book. Don't know if the book existed though, but it's interesting facts anywhay, don't you think?)
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Erm... how do you reason? Did you reason at all?
