Was it right to drop the atomic bomb onto Hiroshima?
Dropping atomic bombs was wrong at the time and wrong in hindsight. “The atomic bombs ended the war and saved lives” – this statement is not historical fact, but really the work of politics and revised history to suit American audiences. No historical facts suggest that atomic bombs ended WWII or saved any lives. People who say the atomic bombs ended the war and saved lives are hypocrites. If a Nazi leader dropped an atomic bomb on the US, Americans would’ve labelled it as one of the most atrocious acts of WWII on par with the Holocaust, and the Nazi leader would’ve been sentenced at Nuremberg. At Nuremberg, the Nazi leader might say he was trying to end the war and save German lives. Do you honestly believe that the American public would listen to that? If Germany won the war, Hitler would’ve used “ending the war” and “saving lives” as part of Nazi propaganda to justify nuking American cities. Truman committed a war crime by using atomic bombs but he was saved from hanging because he
