Quote Originally Posted by Spiffing Cheese
And for another thing. Maybe they can possibly justify the bombing of Hiroshima. MAYBE. But then, they go and do it again. How do they justify that? Hadn't they already proved what they could do? Proved that, more or less, they'd already won the war?
I second MILF's post. Quite frankly, the people in charge of Japan were quite willing to give their lives, and that an entire city was leveled didn't change their mind. That doesn't mean that we can blame them for Little Boy, but we can certainly justify our own actions. The Japanese didn't think we'd won the war yet, just that we had a major victory. After all, they could rationalize (and some did) that we only had one bomb, and that it would take several months to complete another. When we showed them the second three days later, it showed them we had a hell of a lot more where that came from. (Of course, we didn't, but this time they didn't realize we were essentially bluffing.)