Crumpy, you are assuming that people defending the dropping of the bombs, are happy for the suffering, misery and mass casualties. Nobody with a head on their shoulders thinks it was a 'good' event. However, at the time, it was a necessary event. The US knew they had a trump card that would stop the war in its tracks. And the cost would be a 150,000 lives now, vs millions of lives later.
I am sure even the men that made that decision, struggled with it, but the net result was better than the alternative. The US will always have that blood on their hands, but so will Japan. Japan did some horrible, horrible things mostly unprovoked. You seem to think Japan was a peace loving nation that didn't have it coming to them. As other posters have alluded to, the death toll of those bombs, is absolutely dwarfed, by what Japan did in China.
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