Was the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan Justified?

Well back then it was legal now it would be a ware crime. Specific targeting of civilians. Civilian - Wikipedia

Inevitable lol so if i know you are going to shoot a number of people and i shoot you 2 days before you do that then suddenly i have not committed murder??Deliberate targeting of civilians is now a ware crime, back in the day when you dropped the bombs it wasn't well at least not an agreed upon ware crime.There where 1001 ways to avoid leveling 2 cities and still get japan to surrender. Whit out mass casualties !!!America just had to show the world its new toy and not only once but 2 times that is the only reason you dropped the bombs everything else are excuses.

One would be that you drop the bomb in to explode above the ocean for the emperor to see then accept his surrender that had the condition he remains in power.Do you relay think after seeing a mushroom cloud for himself that he would not surrender? Yea thats like saying destroying new york is not a war crime because it has a port and factories. Carpet bombing would have yielded much fewer casualties then an A bombAnd the primary targets in Nagasaki the port and the steal works where already destroyed by regular bombs So the nuke just gave the final blow to the city and leveled everything else the hospital that has already been hit too the school and civilian houses. And as for how informed the Japanese where about the A bomb the air raid siren was called off because they believed that the plane they see is only on a reconnaissance mission.

[qs]Should they kill 100,000 people now and end the war or should they slowly kill 1,000,000 in the course of 3 months?[qs] Firstly 200 000 peoplejust not all of them instantly the efects of the bomb killed anoter 100 000 people after the first 100 000 died "instantly"Secondly how many of those where civilians you know fishermen rice farmers .... 90% 95% ???? Like they had any other choice all the other Axies where defeted by the allies japan was the last one left you realy think they would hold out against the whole world for 3 months I know i wouldent nuke a city at worst an army base but not a city. Firstly after the first bomb they dint know what the hell happened all they knew was that a city with large stockpiles of explosives got erased from the map if someone suspected that the enemy droped one bomb and destroyed the city they would probably think he is mad there was no such weapon known at the time.And you had to fight those for 3 months loosing countless lives they surrendered in every surrender there are some extremists that want to fight on Yea that real ware was alredy ending the germans where defeated the italians changed the direction they where pissing as the winds changed ..... The only one left was Japan against the armies of the world you could have freeking capret bommbed the entire island with the militery power that was at japans doorstep.To reply to the above post tooThe Americans had a 3d bomb projected in august and another 3 bombs in September wasting one bomb to spare 100 000 CIVILIAN lives of a country that knew it was going to loose is too high a price to pay?

No i am simply suggesting that japan had no choice but to surrender and would have surrendered pretty soon. The al kaida did not commit any ware crime when it attacked the WTC with those planes the goal was not to kill civilians but to shock America into surrender. Would you agree with this statement?

Yea the technicality that they are not a country but still