Was the dropping of the Atomic Bomb the worst decision in the history of humanit

Question: Was the dropping of the Atomic Bomb the worst decision in the history of humanity!?

lets be honest, America was on the verge of winning the war regardless!.!.!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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NO! Electing George Bush as president was!. No McCain and his VP would have been the 2nd worst!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I suppose you'd rather have continued seeing a few thousand die every day for as long as it might have taken for Japan to decide to give up!? The war had been lost to them since Midway, over three years before, and they had shown no signs of surrender!. Would you have preferred to see even more Japanese die of starvation while we waited for them to see the light, while the eight million undefeated troops they still had in China continued to slaughter Chinese!? I guess the Chinese dont matter!. Would you have preferred to see a few hundred thousand casualties to both sides in the invasion of the first of the home islands slated for November 1, 1945!? So far the Japanese had fought fanatically to the last man in every battle, and surrendered nothing!. Truman, Churchill and Chiang Kai Shek had made the Potsdam Declaration July 26, 1945, and informed the Japanese that if they did not surrender immediately, they would face "prompt and utter destruction"!. No response!. Pages from Tojo's diary released just a few weeks ago show that he wanted to fight on, even after both bombs, and he was far from alone!. When Hirohito made known his desire to see the war ended, one faction attempted a coup to put a stop to it!. Does this matter to you at all, or is America always just wrong, wrong, wrong every freaking time with you!? Meanwhile thousands were dying every day in the aggressive war of conquest that JAPAN had started, in China and in other places, but of course, that's not a decision you would question at all, is it!? Idiot!. Im hoping you're just a Hoosier fan and not an actual student, because this is a pretty ignorant question!. Most people who actually know anything about the war agree that the A-bombs SAVED LIVES, because they gave the Japanese an honorable excuse to give it up!. Fool!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Definitely not!. The Allies were definitely going to win at that point, there was no mistaking it!. But the Japanese still intended to fight on, to cause as much damage as possible so as to encourage a favorable armistice!. Had the bombs not been dropped, the only two other options were a blockade, which would've caused millions to die of starvation and lack of other resources, or an invasion, which would've caused millions of Japanese deaths, and hundreds of thousands of Allied ones!.

The bombings saved lives!. Millions of them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Considering that it saved hundreds of thousands of lives at the time and kept us from a world war for the past 60 years, i'd say it was a good decision!. Now we're stuck with regional wars, proxy wars and conflicts between rump states!. A world war 3 would be the end of mankind!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

the only reason we dropped the atomic bomb was because we(usa) were not winning!. you should be glad we have a freedom, partly because of the atomic bomb!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No, the fire bombings in Germany and Japan killed and maimed more people than the A_bomb!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No, there were much worse decisions!. Www@QuestionHome@Com