Posted: 5/27/2016
The first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 8/6/1945 was certainly justified. The arguments for it are well known and generally well accepted (so I will not repeat them here).
Whether it was justified to drop a second atomic bomb within only three days of the first atomic bomb on 8/9/1945 is questionable. U.S. President Harry Truman probably should have intensified the warnings to the Japanese government & people and waited at least a week before dropping the second bomb. I do not believe that e.g. the already weakened Japanese air defenses at that time would have had the capability to prevent a second drop had it been a few days later.
The horrors of the first bomb probably should have been given more time to sink in.
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