We didn’t need to drop the bomb — and even our WW II military icons knew it

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12. I know it sounds great to say you are/were against the A-bomb drops but...

It saved lives, bottom line. The estimated number of deaths in BOTH cities is between 140k and 230K people. That sounds like a lot, but in WWII numbers, sad to say, it is not. Conventional bombing of Japan is estimated to have caused between 240k and 900k people. If the war hadn't ended after Nagasaki that number would have kept climbing, even more dramatically.

And those are just Japanese civilian deaths.

Let's look at it from the American citizen perspective.

If you have the choice of having tens of thousands of American sons/fathers/brothers/husbands dying in an invasion or ending the war with no further American casualties, FDR really had only one choice.

It was a horrible choice, to be sure, but you can't blame him, it saved both Japanese and American lives without a doubt.