What were the cons of dropping the bomb?

Answer 1

Con: They killed hundreds of thousands of people with the bombing, radiation fallout and subsequent infections and cancerous diseases derived from the radiation poisoning. Atomic bombs are not militarily proper to use.

Pro: To save millions of Japanese lives, millions of Allied lives including the Reds who were ready to invade Japan. That is what the atomic bombs did accomplish. Some Japanese say it was better to lose some of their own rather than be wiped off the face of the earth by the Reds, Americans, Canadians and Australians.

Thoughts to consider: The military leaders for the next 6 decades have never lobbed one of their nuclear missiles knowing they would wipe out 1/3 of the earth with one of the modern nuclear missiles. That would not include the amount of deaths afterward. So did they learn from the atomic bombing of World War 2?

The military warriors of the Red Army, US Army, The Marines, The Royal Forces all say they are extremely grateful for the atomic bombs finally motivating Emperor Hirohito to surrender. Had Hirohito not surrendered it is likely a good eighty percent of the Russians, Americans, Brits, Canadians and Australians would have died right alongside the Japanese military and civilians. Many of the warriors have gone up to the developers of the atomic bombs and thanked them. There have been Japanese civilians who were so relieved it was over and mourned the loss of the Japanese who had to die just to get Hirohito to finally end the war. The Japanese civilians did not have any "power of the voice" to motivate their leaders to stop the war.

Above all else, we must be grateful that the two atomic bombs of World War II were, in effect, firecrackers compared to the atomic bombs that would soon follow.

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