Was it a good decision for the us to bomb japan?

Answer 1

It depends on your point of view. I (being a nonviolent type) do not think that this was the best option. Considering that the U.S shoved over 110,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps right after the bombing of pearl harbor, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki just over did it, and it killed 150,000 to 246,000 people. Actually immediately after the U.S bombed Japan, people from the U.S were sent to japan to help japan recover from this (if i may say) "EPIC" disaster. The U.S stayed in japan for a few years helping with the recovery of many Japanese.

The alternate view: Without the atomic bombing of Japan, the only other option - given the adamant position of the Japanese that surrender was unthinkable - was the invasion of Japan, in which the most conservative estimates projected 250,000 American and over 1,000,000 Japanese lives would be lost - and most of the Japanese lives would be civilians.