> The programs long predate the fall of Germany, and thus saying they were developed to compete with a German nuclear program are completely accurate and reason

> The programs long predate the fall of Germany, and thus saying they were developed to compete with a German nuclear program are completely accurate and reasonable. The existence of the atomic program is not the question. It is their _use_ against a nation that was on the brink of surrender. I'm sorry that the truth does not fit your neat model of the US. It stands to reason, that the only nation in the world to use atomic weapons against dense human populations needs to be scrutinized appropriately, and not hailed as the "hero", the decision to do so being "inevitable". Nothing about the use of nuclear weapons was inevitable, and their use simply egged on similar development in other nations and a general increase in the probability of nuclear holocaust.