If a person is faced with a choice of ending ongoing bloodshed at a cost of participating in that bloodshed ... then it is a coward and a despicable man who doe

If a person is faced with a choice of ending ongoing bloodshed at a cost of participating in that bloodshed ... then it is a coward and a despicable man who doesn't act. Those who were a part of that mission acted with the intention of ending the war. And that's exactly what happened. There would have been many, many more dead on both the Japanese and the American side if those bombs didn't drop. That was painfully obvious. Every single Axis power fought to the last man up to that point. Japan was the most fervent, fanatical of them all. There isn't a single shred of evidence to suggest that a ground invasion of Japan, which would have been necessary if it wasn't for the bombing, wasn't going to be an absolute horror worse than any nuclear bombing.