Justifications
"President Truman steadfastly defended his use of the atomic bomb, claiming that it "saved millions of lives" by bringing the war to a quick end. Justifying his decision, he went so far as to declare: "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians."
This was a preposterous statement. In fact, almost all of the victims were civilians, and the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (issued in 1946) stated in its official report: "Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen as targets because of their concentration of activities and population."
If the atomic bomb was dropped to impress the Japanese leaders with the immense destructive power of a new weapon, this could have been accomplished by deploying it on an isolated military base. It was not necessary to destroy a large city. And whatever the justification for the Hiroshima blast, it is much more difficult to defend the second bombing of Nagasaki.
All the same, most Americans accepted, and continue to accept, the official justifications for the bombings. Accustomed to crude propagandistic portrayals of the "Japs" as virtually subhuman beasts, most Americans in 1945 heartily welcomed any new weapon that would wipe out more of the detested Asians, and help avenge the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the young Americans who were fighting the Japanese in bitter combat, the attitude was "Thank God for the atom bomb.""
Institute for Historical Review
For I'm a neutral in this case, I don't want to judge anyone for this incident. Still I can't just sit still knowing that people still believe this action to be righteous. I had a conversation once in the chatroom with a couple of American citizens. I was stunned! Shocked! For their attitude about the A-bombings!? I don't blame every American to think this way, of course. But world changes... So should people. If people used to be a narrow sighted.. Should we follow the same footsteps?
I understand that what is done is done. We can never change what has already happened. But countries still treat other countries with their nuclear capacity? Haven't we learned anything? Even something?? A nuclear weapon is something we should never use. I understand that country needs to be strong for the fear of war. But what if the war would struck? We really want to shoot a-bombs to civilian villages 'till other party surrenders..? When was it, when the humans lost their humanity. And there is also the chance of chain reaction causing our world to cease from existing.
War is always ugly, no-one wishes for it. Still we fight wars. There is nothing I can change in that. But I want to correct the propaganda that seems to been fed to the American population. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were civilian villages. Most of the people reply to it, "yeah, but they bombed our Pearl Harbor first". Let me remind you, Pearl Harbor Was a military base.
I once saw a document of the atomic bombs, where was actual interviews from the people who built it or was involved into the bombing. There was said, the first bomb was to be dropped on Japan, second into the Hitlers Germany. They had left cities intentionally without bombing, so that they could see the effects of the a-bomb as much as possible. Since the Germany surrendered before the atomic bomb was ready, they wanted to drop it to Japan only to see their bomb in action.
The sources reliability varies, so it's your own decision will you believe or not what I say. Just remember, the future use of atomic bombs is influence by us, public. If we choose to say no, someone will notify it for sure.
Different sources I used, and which you can read more about:
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/MED/
med_chp10.shtml
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v16/v16n3p-4_We ber.html
http://hubpages.com/hub/Hiroshima_Bomb ing_Affects