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I respectfully disagree with some statements here. It is quite unfortunate that the most commonly accepted reason for dropping the bomb was to end the war early and to save the lives of thousands of allied troops. However, many of us do not realize that the Japanese have begun accepting defeat prior to the bombing. If you've read Hideki Tojo's diary (Japan's PM during the war), Imperial Japan has been scrambling for peace negotiations with allied forces months before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of the many reasons for their desire for cease fire attributed to the advancing influence of Communist Soviet Union at that period.

Unfortunately, due to language and cultural barriers, negotiation efforts failed to coerce a mutual cease fire and rebuild diplomatic relations between Japan and the West.

Allied forces too, were well aware of the growing threat of the Soviet Union. Towards the end of the war, President Truman, along with western allies began preparation for military confrontation with the communist.

One of the pre-emptive strike agreed upon was to show case United States military might by dropping 2 atomics bombs into Japan. This was a scare tactic aimed towards Kremlin from advancing their political influence over eastern Europe and Pan-Asia.

I’m sure many of you would not accept this fact. But the bitter truth is, this information is available on the internet, and historical archives including memos by Truman which surfaced after the war.

Are we forgetting the invasion of Japan in the Philippines, where young children had to watch relatives walk past them in the death march, witnessing murder of the thw weak in line, beheaded family running down the street?
Then they pull a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor? These people were intent on killing many in many nations.
First and last atomic bomb. It shortened the war. And noe the people of Japan want peace. I greave for any innocent life shortened. I pray nothing like this has to happen again.

It is all very sad. I also remember Pearl Harbor as well as what Nazi Germany did to people.

I'm right - You are wrong......
Shame on you - Shame on you too.......
Get your history right....
I know the truth - You're lying.....
Don't listen to him - Listen to me....
I hate U.S - I hate Japan - I hate Germany - I hate Russia.....

Very interesting to read all the comments.
Photos make people react - I love photos.

Hi, mi name is Sebastian. I'm from Argentina and I enter to this site only to see the good quality pictures posted. Anyway, it is true that the germans and the japanese were studying how to make the nuclear bomb and it would be sure that usa would be under atack like england, canada, russia, etc... But the true is that in august 1945 germany was defeated the only country who stands against the allies was japan, a country without fuel and a political system in crisis. The only thing that i want to say is this, It was not necesary to drop that bomb, a lot of inocent people died, it was a matter of time to see japan surrender.
Thanks for reading me.
By the way.... don't think that i hate usa or stupid things like that, the true is that is a wonderful country, with increible people and for me an amazing culture (I've been living in Denver for a year) it's only that i not agree with all this bomb thing.
Thank's again

itz not americas fault... and not japans.... we all are the stupids... stupid humans... who fight against each other.... evryone wanne be better then his neighboor, if he life next to his house or to his country...... thatz the resault... how a neighboorfight can end... stupid humansss

in war there are no winners, all are losers

i am an asian, and I love japanese.
But US did a good job on bombing Hiroshima. It ended the japanese war against most country in Asia. If not because of US, maybe Japan today still don't have those technology & fashion + anime. Lol. It helps to save alot of live too.

Thank God the Americans dropped the Bombs on Hiroshima that day. I'm a Chinese and my late grandfather was a survivor from the Chinese war against Japanese. for #461 and all of you who say "shame on America", think twice before you speak. The Americans were simply trying to prevent those bloody Japanese to perform further destructions! You don't know how brutal the Japanese soldiers acted towards the Chinese people at that time.

The Japanese soldiers in NanJing killed hundred thousands of people, butchered them, cut the victims' heads and put the heads on the wire fences. They even photographed it ! If some of you happen to travel to china, go to the Nanjing Massacre Memorial and u can see many photographs like that. There's also some photographs of Japanese soldiers holding their long swords with hundreds of dead body behind them and they seemed so proud of it.

Like you think that's an inhuman act already, some soldiers even ate the flesh of the dead body when they are short of foods supply and they photographed it too!!!!! and also, the Japanese were into a biological program in which they practiced it by cutting the stomach of the Chinese people without giving them anesthetic, alive. if you think Hitler was brutal already using the gas chamber for mass murder, the Japanese soldiers were far much brutal in killing the Chinese people.

Brutal and inhuman, they were, butchering, eating human flesh.. Surely, if the Americans didn't drop the bomb that day, the Japanese would be unstoppable and I can't imagine how many more Chinese people could be the victim of the brutal Japanese soldiers.

I went to the monument when I was 13 and flashing back again remembering those pictures i saw, really... I can say the Japanese actions were the most brutal war-crime I ever known. Only humans with mental illness will be able to perform those brutal acts to other human, photographed them and gave a proud smile of their acts in the photograph.

I pay all of my respects to the Chinese soldiers who died during the war against the Japanese and also to the US Navy who died during the Pearl Harbor bombing. May they rest in peace.

You'd be not be human if you don't feel the overwhelming sadness of that massive destruction.
But if the bombs had not happened, how much more destruction would the Japanese have wrecked? Quoting numbers and trying to play a counting game of who caused the greater devastation pales in the face of personal experience.
2 uncles "disappeared" after a mandatory reporting to the Japanese army (the family did not even have a place of death to offer prayers at), 2 more wasted away from malnutrition, my father narrowly escaped a bomb blast. If he had not been shoved aside by a kind soul who died instead, I might not have been.
What's there more to say?

Shame of human misery, worst than any animal ever created are humans. Humans masters, of hate, pain, and destruction.

I say this is sad, but.. still today, they will fight, when all they need is oil
has anybody ever thought of just asking? that's all it takes..

My grandpa was in this war who was included dropping the bomb
but this was around 60 years ago.. Its the past, we can't do nothing about it
but just mesmerized the pictures. You should all be worrying about tomorrow not yesterday.
& even if the Japanese are really challenging people, I still have friends who are..
and I don't have any problem making friends with one, thats just ignorant.

Ya so if any other country wants to fight like that just come to america

The best example I can imagine is picture yourself walking into a bar and you walk up to the biggest guy in the bar and kick him in the crotch, is it any surprise that when he gets up he is going to totaly destroy your sorry butt? Thisis what happened to Japan in WWII. As to the dropping of the bomb does the term " unrestricted war" sound familiar? War is just that barbaric, inhumane conflict but that is the way of man. I for one am quite comfortable with the dropping of a atomic weapon which brought the war to a end and as a side benefit put Russia on hold from any aggression they may have been planning.

Comment #463 I'm totally agree .

America was right to fight back, read history book before make any judgment about America!

Same on you #461

@460... i totally agree with you.
Sorry, but war is never okay.
Nobody has the right to fight back.
NOBODY! I know, japan did really bad things to china and korea.
There died a lot of innocent people, and it is also a sad thing.
But in Hiroshima there were also innocent people.
Because of this bomb, today still people die.
I won't say "shame to america", "shame to japan" or "shame to germany". I say: Shame on truman! Shame on the goverment of japan. Shame on adolf hitler!
Shame on all who thinks war is an answer!

After all this death and destruction the US allows many of it's best jobs to go to communist China building them up while our own people become dumb to the uses of tools and modern machinery. No wonder American people lose interest in math and the sciences for they fear it's no use to waste time on anything their going to take away from you. Now many nations have the skills and training along with the weapon technology sold to them by greedy US companies. What good is technology if you can't participate in it ?

I shall comment at a later date because I an so angry at what some of the comments the children make.

I've been reading some comments and there's something i can't understand at all. It seems like lot of US people think that dropping the bombs was a necessary punishment for the japanese because they made horrible things all over asia, and even dare to compare the number of casualties to justify the bombings.. if you think about it, what do US know about the horror of war? I mean, US have been involved in a LOT of wars in just 200 years of history, even more than some european and asiatic countries with a deeper past, but US ground have been officially attacked by another country like... once? twice?? All the wars you've been in... just for "some interests". All your casualties have been soldiers, not civilians, and they died for protecting neither their country, their lives or their families, not even for revenge or survival.. just for the interests of the government. It's not their fault, they are sent to stupid wars generation after generation, dying the most meaningless death, just to make some people a little more rich or powerful. I think war is nonsense, but mankind is too stupid to realize, to respect each other, so it's a "necessary" pain sometimes. But the killing of innocent people must NEVER be allowed, supported or justified in any way, war must be a soldiers work, and if there's one country in the world thad made civilians suffer and NEVER had to suffer themselves the cruelty of war, that's the United States of America. So think twice before you write that Japanese deserved it or that it was necessary to end the war, because US people are not the most appropiate people to talk about the horrors of war.

AWESOME!

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were experimental bombs and they were dropped for the sake of weapon experiment. There is no doubt about the fact the America is the biggest terrorist and a war criminal of the world.

There were peace negotiations -- of a sort and at a distance -- with Japan before the bomb was dropped. The US terms were 'unconditional surrender.' The Japanese feared that 'Unconditional Surrender' meant surrender of the Emperor. After Hiroshima, we accepted that the Emperor would remain in power, while they accepted that they were surrendering 'unconditionally.'

The problem: it's not clear what Hiroshima and (especially) Nagasaki actually did much to clarify what were negotiations over semantics.

A humanidade deve ser exterminada do universo, raça nojenta, tenho muita vergonha de ser humano...

Forget it , move on. May the best man win.

In deed there is no description for any destruction, this is really annoying the conscious of a human beings. In life it is not significant that who is the guilty, but as a matte of fact this is rally againt human gignity and human remaining point.

Let's everyone promise that we will never make those things that threatens the life in this globe....
And exactly we must pray that " Got do not power those who are using that power against human like America did at Hiroshima....
and may god bless those victims!!!

" Let's just give peace a chance"-------"Can't we all just get along"..............Please, is there not any thing worth fighting for? I for one believe there is. Don't think globally here, think personally. If some one should break in and rape and butcher my young child right before my eyes, then, according to many ignorant and PC posters here, I should offer my other child as well; you know, let's get along. Well, guess what, I'm a human being. I have human emotions, good and bad, and I won't feel guilty if I act on my human emotions. If something is funny, I'll laugh, but, should another person attack me or my family then I will respond in kind only more severely. You see, I don't want to just stop the guy, I want to exact punishment and dare I say it, get REVENGE. Oh yeah,....why should I ignore that emotion? It's there, we all have it. Come-on, it's normal. Also, If the guy is taking a beating and seeks safety back in his own house,Too bad. He should not have attacked my family. He started it and he will suffer the consequences of his despicable deeds. And now, If we can understand it on a personal level,how is it different on an international scale?
And one more thing, So long as there are bad people in this world; robbers rapists, burglers, wife beaters, and, yes, white collar crooks and power hungry politicians, then there will ALWAYS be wars. Humans are what they are and so long as humans exist, wars will occur.

RE; #562...............Your ignorance, Sir, is profound !

I agree with comment #570!
Comment #562 is not just ignorant, but extremely stupid too!

To the chinese man who stated,"thank god the US dropped the bomb," nothing needs to be said. To all of you out there who do NOT think for themselves,this is what you sound like!
WAKE UP!!!

RE; 570/571
Although a little misguided in his opionion he had some points!

This discussion site statements and many like it are examples of how the "elite" have the majority brainwashed! People here are all talking about what this country has done to that country and how this act of war is justified by that act,blah,blah,blah!
The US is NOT the enemy, The "elite" billionare families who controll various governments are!
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WAKE UP!!!

GREED and LUST conquer men' souls.

The bombs preempted the invasion of the islands, which operations were projected to cause millions of casualties.

What is the difference between one plane & one bomb, or a hundred planes loaded with tons of bombs? The end results are all the same, except for the fact that the one plane raid only exposes one aircrew. As for the morality of it, show me the difference between a rain of firebombs that totally destroy a city, or the one nuclear weapon that produces the same results. Dead is dead. But, the awesome shocking power that was demonstrated by the one bomb-one city definately lead to the end of the war, saving countless lives that would have been lost on both sides by an invasion of the Japanese home islands.

To Richard and all the pro-bombers: I would prefer not to be alive, than to live in a world such as this. I have grown up a stupid, naive person, believing in what the media and our govts. want us to believe. I agree with Ahmed and others, at the end of the day we're all humans, wars are controlled by power hungry men. Irrespective of what our religion is, at the end of the day, they say the same, it is what we idiots in the modern world, who think that our religions calls for anhilation of the other, call it crusade, jihad blah, blah, blah.

It's interesting what the pacifists say..."This must NEVER happen again. I ask what would you be willing to do to stop it? I pitty the man who believes there is nothing worth fighting for. He will be a slave. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel once said that those who do not read history will have to repeat it. How sobering a thought. As unthinkable as it is to think of past atrocites of WWII we have witnessed in today's world the attempts at "ethnic cleansing". What are you wiling to do to stop it?

@ Joshue # 501: Your little reprimand of #498 Valtur25 over his incorrect English, is stupid and arrogant. #498 probably speaks atleast 3 more languages fluently than you do, and has more world knowledge than you do. You speak English and that even not too well.

"Posted by Joshua August 11, 09 06:55 PM 501.
Comment #497, John, your comments is really what some people here should read about. Very well done! Thank you. "

Your comments are and not is, Bozo!

Sad thing but true.

Its one of the saddest day in the history. I am shocked to see this things being done by the human beings just to show their power over other countries. I guess it will be black mark on the history.

Wow! I cannot believe all these comments. Japan attacked the USA. Germany was running all over Europe. The war was NOT over when the bombs were dropped. It was over AFTER the bombs were dropped. The devastation was tragic and breaks my heart. My heart also aches for the children in Great Britain, France, Germany et al. My heart also aches for the American soldiers that were unmercifully tortured by Japan. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote was prophetic. It is well document that America would lose 1 million soldiers to defeat Japan conventionally. Try all you want to change history – but the facts are there for all to see.

Forget about right or wrong!
Forget about if it was necessary or not.
The most important thing is not to repeat the tragedy again.
All the presidents, prim ministers, kings and queens should visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, before they take on the leadership of their countries.
Then the world would be a bit more safer place.

Two wrongs do not make one right.
Using A bomb on civilians was tragic, and cruel, using it again in 3 days was outright callous.

hirohsima saved millions of of citizens in

usa
japan
china
philippines
asia

by ending the war early.

2nd half of 20th. century. much more quiet.

the nuclear "gadget" has brought a cold-peace to the world.

war among nations is too costly.

would japan have bombed "pearl harbor" if has the bomb.

would usa had invaded iraq if iraq had the bomb

No one on earth is touching north korea.

They started it................we finished it!

I have been to Hiroshima thrice. I recommend the fired up people visit the peace memorial museum in Hiroshima, read the copies of American deliberate plans to bomb civilians for the purpose of testing the impact of their new weapon and then decide whether this particular bombing was the right decision irrespective of atrocities committed by Japanese.
There were other ways of teaching Japanese imperial army a lesson. Months before the atom bomb, conventional bombing was being regularly done by Americans without much interference by Japanese and it is mentioned that the Japanese were on the verge of surrender. Bombing was reduced to delay surrender just to enable the a-bomb to be ready for testing on Japanese guinea pigs.
All parties in a war commit atrocities, however members of loosing side end up being prosecuted and executed etc. While members of winning side with worse degree of atrocities retire with chest full of medals!!
This is the Law of the Jungle
Cheers

no matter how sad or criminal are the ironies of the past, as a lesson what are we doing to preserve the future from such atrocities. Its always the pot calling the kettle black. Isn't US now controlled by the Jewish media and wealth still not the greatest terrorist around! What has changed since 1945 in their attitude or approach as usurpers of global resources? Is the world any safer since then?

people who criticize the us for dropping the bombs are really naive about the Japanese mindset at the time. When we took Okinawa we found out that the Japaneese military had brainwashed the "civilian" population to die for their emperor and that surrender was not a option. America would have sustained over a million casulties if they would have had to invade the mainland japan. Japan would have lost many many more people than they did in the two atomic attacks. Dont forget that the firebombing of Tokyo killed many more people than the atomic attacks but it did nothing to make japan surrender.

Shocking.

MAN WILL CONTINUE TO JUSTIFY HIS ACTIONS,HIS CRIMES IN THE NAME OF NATIONALISM/HEROISM.REFUSE TO LEARN LESSONS FROM HISTORY.....ETHICS HAS ALWAYS BE PUT ASIDE AND INNOCENT CIVILIANS ARE ALWAYS THE VICTIMS OF THE HORRORS OF WAR AND SHALL CONTINUE TO BE AS LONG AS THE DESIRE TO DOMINATE OTHERS EXIST FOR MATERIAL GAINS.

I am 87 years old right now. I was in Okinawa and our next stop was the invasion of Japan. We had Suicide planes attacking us every day and some at night. Our ship was loaded with fuel for our ships and aircraft and sat there day after day luckily being missed several time. I watched Brand New Destroyers going up to Radar Picket Point to give us advance warnings of coming attacks and the following morning those same ships, if they came back at all, were literally floating tombs for those seamen that were trying to protect us. I speak for friends that did NOT come back alive.
Am I supposed to regret that we used the BOMB??? If we had not dropped it chances are I would not be typing this.. Remember, War is Hell and people get killed but liberty is worth fighting for and dying if necessary.

One thing people should understand is that the A-bombs saved Japan. An invasion by the Allies in 1945 would have resulted in the complete destruction of the Japanese home islands, and most of it's population, and maybe 500,000 allied wounded and killed. The Japanese military
would have forced the civilians to fight, and the army would have fought to last man. All of Japan would have looked like Hiroshima.

My opinion: there is no excuse for indiscriminate destruction of human life. It is especially heinous when massive populations of civillians are targeted. Remember all innocents, everywhere, who've lost their lives because of greed-fuled violence.

Just stop with your "would have", "If" etc... There is just no excuse for this.

Es la naturaleza del hombre. Aplastar, matar, acaparar. A veces a pequeña escala, en otras ocasiones como esta, a un nivel espeluznante. Ke coño se pretende con las guerras? Acaparar recursos? para obtener poder? que a su vez otorga dinero? Que mierda mueve las tripas de un hombre que toma la decision de lanzar una bomba contra civiles? Menos mal que estamos acabando con nosotros mismos, nuestro destino es desaparecer y dejar a los animales habitar esta buena tierra en paz y armonia. La raza humana pasará a la historia como la especie mas degenerada de todas.

first John # 497 Great Essay thanks for sharing all that info. Things happened in the precise moments a great thinker says. I think the US used the bomb not to make japan surrender but to tell the USSR to behave. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were two of the 10 more obscene attrocities of the 20th century, the final solution in europe is another, sept. 11 2001, is another, genocides in latin america and the dirty war against comunist guerrillas, the lockerbie panam bombing, the attack of the kindergarten school in osetia etc, etc, etc, but remember that evolution says that there are three kinds of intelligence in the natural world, human animal and military. So all who gave a green light on the use of atomic weapons on civilian population, all who aprooved the final solution, all who planned and execute the 9/11 attack all of you who planned the death of innocents then and now......well hI hope you will burn in hell for eternity !

For as long as nations and religions exist, this things unfortunately will happen. As simple as that.

Killing or even harming anyone for no matter what reason is absurd, and must never be justified.

No nuclear weapons anywhere of the world to save the mankind

Simple question. Why Nagasaki only 3 days later. Was there compelling evidence to drop another in only 3 days?

It is true that America had to defend itself but dropping an atomic bomb on a city full of innocent civilians is unacceptable. People try to justify what happened by saying that Japan had done worse to other countries, but WHO actually did do these deeds to other countries? It was the soldiers, not the civilians. Also who appointed America the judge of the world? If Japan did terrible deeds to other countries why does America justify what it did by saying "Japan did worse to other countries" what Japan does to other countries is none of America's business. I am not saying that what Japan did from butchery to raping was right but what America did was a lot worse.

The description of pic 8 reads: "Shortly after 8:15 am, August 5, 1945 ..."

Shouldn't that read August 6?

EEUU me dá asco. Ellos y todo lo que les rodea. El tiempo pone a todo el mundo en su sitio. Con EEUU está tardando, pero llegará.

ahhh yes, nothing like the sight of pure, raw, AMERICAN POWER to fill the senses. I think we should drop these pictures as leaflets over every supporter of terrorism in the world. Just another way that the U.S.A. has to put a boot in someones ass. And by the way, if you hate the U.S..,thats fine with us. Stay where you are. we couldn't give a shit less

Vila, post515:
You do NOT know your history...I was a small child then and I remember very well. The Japanese would NOT give up even though they had lost and many American soldier's lives WERE saved by dropping the A-bomb. The Japanese had to be brought to their knees...It even took ANOTHER bomb on Nagasaki to finally get them to surrender and stop this horrible war, which by the way, they started... and yes, they did bomb and fire on US
citizens in Oahu (that's in Hawaii in case you don't know. I know cause I was there). The horrors of the torture they met out to soldiers (look up the Bataan Death March)The distressing thing to me is the ignorance of some people like you...

United States action in Nagazaki and Hiroshima Should be defined as a genocide and Crimes against Humanity.What United States did to japan is completey hysteric act and should be set on trial.and Drived to persecution.

The United States did not start WWII but it ended it. The atomic bombs were tragic but what most of you are forgetting is that the firebombing raids of Germany/Japan actually killed more civilians than the atomic bombs. Why is this more tragic?

In the end it saved an American invasion of Japan and countless American lives. The point of War is to have the other person die, not you. What is tragic is that Japan did not surrender after the first bomb was dropped and that there had to be a second.

How about everybody who is on the "big bad United States bandwagon" take a look back at the holocaust, the Japanese invasion of China and of course the Japanese treatment of POW's during WWII. THOSE WERE ATROCITIES, the atomic bomb was just "War."

Us did not drop the abombs to avoid further casualties in the war. They dropped the bombs to to intimidate and subordinate the rest of the world to their authority, and to punish a country who dared to question their power. US did not care about those Chinese who died in WWII. If Japon was an alley to them, US would have supported Japon in their invasion of China without a doubt no matter how many innocent Chinese were killed by Japon. US govt does not even care about the lives of their own soldiers. They pretend to the contrary just to have their people be content and follow the govt decisions. They certainly did not use the bomb in order to save even the lives of American soldiers. These are just excuses and I am wondered why some people need to fool themselves with excuses.

que malas bestias

Just silence.

No puedo entender como sigue la gente diciendo que USA salvo al mundo. Desde la victoria de los aliados, estamos bajo una dictadura de nivel mundial, mucho mas ferrea que lo que pudo haber sido la de Hitler, Franco o Musolinni. Ningun pais que tenga materias primas importantes, esta a salvo si no se lo vende o no le deja explotarlo. Venezuela, Iran, Corea, China y muchos otros paises han optado por un cambio de liderazgo mundial (algunos son dictaduras, lo se) y ya son demonizados por USA. La falsedad y la hipocresia llevada por los americanos les va a pasar factura, por que ya no son tan poderosos, su economia ya no es tan fuerte y su sociedad esta despertando y se esta dando cuenta de que las guerras que pasan en el mundo se recrudecen por su culpa.

Siempre han vivido las guerras desde lejos, y los ataques que sufrieron en la WW2 en el pacifico les dolio mas por orgullo que por las bajas o el valor estrategico de esa base. El 11S les demostro que son vulnerables, y que la guerra les puede llegar.

Es un pais sin historia, que quiere escribir grandes hazañas militares como las griegas, romanas, persas y europeas, para esconder el genocidio que ellos mismos hicieron en la colonizacion de su pais.

Anda y que les den!

US ARMY make a wrong dicission to attack on heroshema and drop the atom bomb.

Estas son las fotos de la verguenza humana. No merecemos llevar el mando del planeta.

Esta claro que terminaremos autoexterminandonos.

It appears hating the U.S.A is very much in fashion globally... how soon the world forgets.

Enjoy your cell phones, computers, internet, television, aircraft, spacecraft, antibiotics, advanced medical treatments and medicines, plastics, light bulbs, radios, vacuum cleaners, neon lights, diodes, toaster, arc welders, frozen food, aerosol cans, iron lungs, penicillin, nylon, photo copiers, Teflon, vulcanized rubber, electron microscopes,nuclear reactors, microwave ovens, transistors, super glue, video tape, synthesizers, electric guitars, rock and roll, FORTRAN computer language, modems, the integrated circuit, pacemakers, BASIC computer language, the Compact Disk, Kevlar, hand held calculators, computers mouse, RAM memory, artificial heart, kidney dialysis, LCD displays, integrated circuits, word processors, post it notes, Magnetic resonance imaging, Super computers, countless vaccines, space telescopes, space shuttles, extra and inner solar system exploration.

Oh yeah ...and bubble gum.

Never mind the abstract ideals of human rights, freedom of speech and democracy the the U.S.A has proven can and does work.

The United States has heard the cry of those trampled by tyranny in the past and responded with it's own blood on foreign land many many times...who else heard those calls?

There has never been another nation in the history of the world that has advanced mankind so far in so little time, scientifically, socially and politically as the United States has in less than 100 years.

Japan brought the U.S. into WWII by surprise attack...read a history book once in a while, they DO write them in other countries.

The U.S. ended the war with Japan definitively and justly.

Indiscriminate carpet bombing was used by ALL nations in WWII against ALL enemies.

The V2 rockets flying into Great Britain were NOT precisions bombs, Germany wished to demoralize the civilian population by indiscriminate bombing of it's civilians.

Japan used indiscriminate balloon fire bombs to start massive fires in the western U.S.

More people die of starvation in Africa annually than Japan ever endured in WWII but are you raising your fist against that injustice or just microwaving dinner for yourself?

If your so displeased with the history of the world, abstain from some of the privileges history has granted you.

The atomic bomb on Hiroshima killed more than 70,000 people and another one on Nagasaki killed more than 50,000. 120,000 people were killed immediately (in the end of the year,150,000 people), and another 300,000 people died later due to the after effects of the bomb's radiation.

64 years later, today many of the offspring are suffering or dying. They inherited the after effects of the bomb's radiation. They have higher ratio for cancers and etc.

Nuclear bomb never be the answer.

Americas worst crime. Never forget.

i pray to god that it will not be again pls ?????????????

I think that is sad, and that is coming from a american!

It was a horrible crime against humanity. Although, it has a sort of "positive" part: an atomic bomb was never ever again used. People saw what disastrous consequences a nuclear attack may have. And there were just 2 small bombs. Imagine what could have happened if during cold war any part of it used a bomb of more developed technology!

To all of you who blame America's greed and lust for power as attrocities.. how can you explain Japans imperialism that lead to them getting the atomic bomb?? Just google the Rape of Nanking... Absolutely no question 1000X more barbaric than anything the US has ever done. The US put you in your place. Because of how the US ended the war you can be on this website and freely speak against the country that liberated you from yourselves without fear of persecution. God Bless the USA!!

hiroshima and Nagasaki was the last test on the Manhatan project.

Both Governments (though not in equal portions) are at fault for the death and carnage that took place in Japan. As we all know, man's inhumanity against man has raged on ever since human existence began, and unfortunately will continue until our demise. That's a very sad thought.

To judge this photos in perspective one should study the previous battles that the Japanese, Brits, Australians and Americans and other allies fought in the Pacific.
In particular see the Japanese actions in Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Philippines, Nanking, Burma, Iwo Jima and especially Okinawa.
The Japanese government and military fed the people stores of allies eating babies - this is true.
The Japanese generally would not surrender when beaten - they would continue to fight and kill until the last man (plenty of proven records on this).

See the "Rape of Nanking" where Japanese shot civilians for target practice and so many atrocities that it defies description. (Well documented - ask any Chinese).

For example: 110,000 soldiers on Okinawa with only 7000 to 10,000 survivors. 100,000 Japanese solders died - they simply refused to surrender and continued making suicide attacks against the Allied solders.

In addition, they pressed the civilians into service at the end of the war (See Okinawa). From 50,000 -140,000 civilians killed on Okinawa alone by Japanese military.

That's because the Japanese solders SHOT TO DEATH THEIR OWN CIVILIANS and their own soldiers that tried to surrender.

Civilians were throwing children and themselves from cliffs into the ocean to avoid being eaten by Allies - as their leaders threatened them (US military film shows this and I've seen it).

Japanese soldiers on Okinawa pressed several hundred high school girls into nursing in the field and pushed them out in front of Allied solders when they were out of food - resulting in about 480 deaths of high school girls!

What kind of military commander would push high school girls out into a battlefield in the midst of heavy fighting? THIS IS TRUE!

It was so bad that the US President did not believe it and sent a staff member to the front to verify it. No other country in warfare fought as savagely to the end - when all was lost - with devastating losses to civilians - for no benefit at all.

The Japanese emperor was formerly asked to surrender prior to this bombings - and he replied that "No, they will fight to the end."

The military continued to launch suicide missions including the world's largest battleship and literally thousands of suicide fighter planes against the Allies.

The horribleness of these atomic bombings was caused by the atrocities of an out of control military and emperor where the people offered blind devotion and obedience to authority.

To this day the Japanese government and many people still deny many the atrocities they caused. There are a few of those Okinawan girls that were pressed into service still alive - they spoke out last year in protest to Japanese government hiding from the facts.

The mortality rate for Allies held in German prisoner camps was 1.2%
The mortality rate for Allies in Japanese camps was 40%.

Without understanding the incredible acts of war at the hands of the Japanese military one cannot fully appreciate the atomic bombings.

My father was in a ship which was bombed and torpedoes numerous times and lost at sea, but miraculously survived. After that his ship was dive bombed by suicide bombers at Iwo Jima but survived again.

In September 1945 his ship was in the Yokohama harbor and picked up US prisoners that had been in a Japanese mine, some had been underground for over 12 months. Many US solders died in those mines.
Thousands died in forced marches without water (Death march of Philippines).

How do you stop an out of control military bent on everyone's destruction, including their own people?

Something to think about.

Four Words
It Ended The War

"Innocent Civilians"? I don't believe in "Innocent Civilians". It is the "Innocent Civilians" who elected the leadership that provoked and prosecuted the war, who manufactured and supplied the munitions necessary to conduct the war, who cheered and encouraged the soldiers in their conduct of the war, who sent their children to replace those soldiers who fell in glorious death, who fed and clothed the troops of the Japanese Empire, etc. One of the major objectives of war is to remove your enemies capability to conduct war. I am just glad that we developed and had the intestinal fortitude to use the A-Bomb.

Also: Note that even after the bombing of Hiroshima the Japanese Government did not surrender. There was no response until we demonstrated our capability and willingness to continue to destroy major portions of their infrastructure. By the way, why is a nuclear weapon any more immoral than a 3lb black powder bomb. It is just bigger.

Governments kill. On March 9 and 10, 1945, US forces dropped more than 1,500 tons of napalm bombs on Tokyo killing an estimated 100,000 people. Over 30 million soldiers died in WWI, over 14 million died in WWII. Civilian casualties in these wars alone were over 18 million in WWI, and approximately 34 million for WWII. In total, for these two world wars alone, over 96 million people died.

"That government is best which governs not at all;" --Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"

FDR claimed Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack. It wasn't. The United States saw war with Japan as the means to get into war with Germany, which Americans opposed. So Roosevelt needed Japan to appear to strike first. Following an 8-step plan devised by the Office of Naval Intelligence, Roosevelt intentionally provoked Japan into the attack. Contrary to the official story, the fleet did not maintain radio silence, but sent messages intercepted and decoded by US intercept stations. Tricked by the lie of a surprise attack, Americans marched off to war.

Google: THE LIE OF THE CENTURY

For anyone interested in reading up on some history from some of the innocent victims who survived this tragic incident there is a book called "Hiroshima" by John Hersey which recounts the stories of 6 of these incredible human beings. Japan showed incredible courage and support for their country even while in pain and many dieing. There are some amazing accounts of bravery and courage. These people were victims of a horrible war that had numerous casualties but even then some had a saying "Shikata ga nai" a japanese expression corrisponding to "it can"t be helped'

I'm startled at the level of hate in some of these postings. I can't come up with a single country that does not have blood on its hands. Yes, including you, China, for the nasty bit of work you did in Tibet. We all see how you continue to justify it and the lies you are told by your government that makes you believe it was a right action. There is not one country on this big blue Earth of ours that is not guilty of some atrocity or other, done usually, in the name of God, or in the name of what is believed to be "right". The bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima was a terrible tragedy and it was done for a variety of reasons but the ultimate lesson here is not to continue to sling accusations at anyone but to learn to live in peace. It's obviously a difficult lesson for everyone to learn.

I cannot help but wonder how many Native Americans we slaughtered taking their country from them, putting them in reservations in the worst areas of the country and making them live in an occupied territory while we enjoy our lives as Americans. We cannot point a finger at anyone and say we did the right thing bombing Japan. I believe in Karma, that is they did bring it upon themselves- but I wonder what awaits us as American having slaughtered a race of people?
MW

all of the comment I have read, all have the same main thought, KILLING PEOPLE and the only excuse they have is that or the japanese are fearless fighter that would understand the word peace, but thats not true cause we cant be sure what could have happened if the USA did not drop the bomb. This takes us to say different thoughts about this, thoughts like if we had not drop it they would have just attacked us with the support of the USSR but how can you be 100% sure that that was going to happen, if the bomb had not been dropped many live could have been saved or it could have only prolonged the war until a day that we could not even imagine. but in my own opinion nobody should have the power to take someone else life, and truman's decision was just a harsh decision that he had to take because of his ideology and personality.

many people dead from atomic bomb in hiroshima why usa shoot atom in there there is not forgivenes never for the usa state i dont belive to the usa state becouse thay are cheater and hoggish thay dont follow true where belong and today like its quran all sceince since from the least prophet muhammed.a.s all his explanations today are caming and wil came and to the end of this world where sciencist finde way from quran and thay dont accept or show reality but keeping hidden 1 day all we will go in judgement day usa is not working right that usa done to hiroshima there is not forgivenes thay mistake alott and alot so 1 day will be evryone responsible

I didn't read all of the comments but some were incredible naive and some showed some wisdom. If it were not for the nuclear bomb, hundreds of thousands of more people would have died due to the continuation of the war. Of course it is sad to see the people affected by such an act. However, the USA is not and never was the "bad guy". Logic needs to prevail over your emotional reaction to the horrific pictures. Evil exists in this world and if you have any sense at all you would want nuclear weapons in the hands of GOOD countries. The technology will always be available, which means no matter what laws are put in place, bad guys can always get the technology. The utopian dream of having a nuclear free world that is held by people on the left (which includes Obama) is illogical and naive. Like I said, the technology will always be there so if it is possible for bad people to have nuclear weapons, wouldn't you want good people to have them too? Unfortunately, those of you on the left will probably disregard the logic in my comment and revert to your emotions and come up with some irrelevant argument that does not apply. God himself could come down and say that he supports my comment and the left would still not understand it. I'm sick of people disrespecting America when America is the best country in the history of civilization and has been the greatest source for good in the history of civilization. If you think America is so bad, then I think that you should move to a different country and find out how you are treated. There are billions of people who risk there lives every day to be here and would appreciate the opportunities that are provided and wouldn't bash their own country. Is there another country that people risk their lives to get to??? GO USA!

Intent students of history remember and understand why the nuclear bombing of Japan was necessary. I stood upon ground zero at Nagasaki in 1970 and pondered what must have happened above those grid coordinates in 1945. A subsequent visit to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum provided many details of the event, albeit somewhat political.

BOTTOM LINE: The Axis powers started WWII. The Allied powers ended it by collaborating to create the fission weapon to MINIMIZE anticipated Allied casualties if a conventional invasion of tenacious and suicidal Japan had become necessary.

Multiple-year Axis atrocities begat two nuclear 1945 Allied atrocities: get over it. Worry about the next atrocity. With thousands of nukes stockpiled worldwide, the potential for some religious-zealot-psycho to eliminate life on Earth is extremely high.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
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Do Not think for a minute the japanese are victims.

Japan invaded china, philippines, asia. 20-plus million died.

Japan bombed pearl harbor.

Peace in Asia
Peace in Japan is because USA was willing to show the world the new weapon can end the war quickly.

Do Not think for a minute the japanese are victims.

Japan invaded china, philippines, asia. 20-plus million died.

Japan bombed pearl harbor.

Peace in Asia
Peace in Japan is because USA was willing to show the world the new weapon can end the war quickly.

a little consideration from anthropology.
the atomic bombs are the only economical way to convince the japanese of year 1945 to surrender...
they was ugly, they was bad, but they was the only way.

Little man that is exactly why everybody hates the United States.

little girl, if you prefer the death of 10 millions of japanese only for hunger, the killing in combat of a huge number of japanese civilians and soldiers in the soviet and u.s. invasion of japan, the death of thousands of people in china and others occupied territories for hand of japanese army...
you have only to say this.
the bombs had avoided the invasion of japan and the continuation of war....
only this.

These 2 atomic bombs killed some 300,000 japanese but saved millions more from useless and horrible deaths on the battlefield. GOD BLESS THE USA.

Japan was NOT going to give up the war. It is not in there nature to give up. In order to protect American citizens and many other countries, the USA had to do something, so 3 days, if they weren't surrendering then, why would they surrender 3 days after that? Exactly they wouldn't. The USA was protecting many people. Some of you may not see that, those of you need to go read up on your world history.