I am amazed at how frivolous some comments can get. How can you even attempt to justify such atrocities? It amazes me someone can actually defend it, it even impresses me to see some people are even proud of that (not in this thread, yet). You can't go making predictions on how many would have died, because all estimations are that, purely estimations.

I don't really want to add much more, just to point out I liked Nik0tine's post, as I had never viewed the situation like that, but hey, he has a point. I do believe that, even if the invassion of Japan had been necessary- and considering the situation, one could argue it was- the bombs are still not to be justified. I could really say more, but I'd rather just show you this image I found long ago on the internet, saved, and uploaded today. Just in case you are afraid I am going to show a pile of corpses or something, just want to say it's simply a text hanged in a wall, a text wich the one I agree 100%:
http://membres.lycos.fr/discepolo/hi...a-memorial.jpg