Had we not bombed them, the Japanese wouldn't have ever surrendered. It's not acceptable in their culture. That's why we had to do it twice.
WOW!!! Just search for nucler bombs and there is one russian bomb that makes 180km (120miles) wide fireball, the true mass destruction weapon! Also note, that this is old technology! I wish terrorists would get few of those and plant them in major US cities, then i would love to watch the show on BBC! Yeahoo!
Hey man war happens only cause of few damm politicitans and majorty suffer is innocent people wheather they are from USA or Iran or Iraq. There is no enjoyment in seeing people dieing wheather they are from any country people are same like me and you.
The Target Committee at Los Alamos on May 10–11, 1945, recommended Kyoto, Hiroshima, Yokohama, and the arsenal at Kokura as possible targets. The committee rejected the use of the weapon against a strictly military objective because of the chance of missing a small target not surrounded by a larger urban area. The psychological effects on Japan were of great importance to the committee members. They also agreed that the initial use of the weapon should be sufficiently spectacular for its importance to be internationally recognized. The committee felt Kyoto, as an intellectual center of Japan, had a population "better able to appreciate the significance of the weapon." Hiroshima was chosen because of its large size, its being "an important army depot" and the potential that the bomb would cause greater destruction because the city was surrounded by hills which would have a "focusing effect". Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson struck Kyoto from the list because of its cultural significance, over the objections of General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project. According to Professor Edwin O. Reischauer, Stimson "had known and admired Kyoto ever since his honeymoon there several decades earlier." On July 25 General Carl Spaatz was ordered to bomb one of the targets: Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, or Nagasaki as soon after August 3 as weather permitted and the remaining cities as additional weapons became available. Some funny read about it : http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061219163344AApoHMp