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

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43. war is by definition barbaric, no matter the weapons used

Are you equally against the barbaric use of conventional bombs against millions of civilians?

I'm guessing you are.

So you're President and your choice is 1) maybe ending the war by dropping a single nuclear weapon and killing 100k Japanese and zero Americans or 2) continue the conventional bombing/invasion of Japan, which had already killed near a million people, and would certainly kill hundreds of thousands more?

Pick one.

Oh, and after Hiroshima they were offered the chance to surrender, they declined. You think any form of conventional warfare would have forced them to surrender short of total invasion and subjugation, causing, according to some estimates, a million or more deaths?

War = no easy choices, and it was a war the Japanese started and did not want to end.