Looking Back to the Day the Bomb Was Dropped

It was 80 years ago today that the U.S dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima Japan.

And every year since then, the debate is renewed as to whether it was the right thing to do. That first atomic bomb killed more than 100,000 people.

But with estimates that several hundred thousand U.S. troops would be killed in an invasion of Japan, the argument was, the dropping of the bomb killed fewer people because it led to a quick surrender by Japan.

It was the lesser of two evils and yet to this day, there are those who said the bomb should never have been used, that it was the wrong thing to do.

There is no doubt though that It led to the end of World War II, a war that in both the Pacific and in Europe was estimated to have killed more than 60 million people.

Even reading the history of WWII it is hard to imagine what it was like. Only those who lived through it and those who lost loved ones in it can understand what that war was like.

As bad as the wars have been in recent years and in recent decades, WWII was so much worse.

And it is always easy to judge long after the excruciatingly difficult life and death decisions were made.

Is it even fair to judge decisions that were made in a different time and a different world that can never be duplicated?

But with evil a part of human history since the beginning, there will always be difficult decisions to make in a world where we have to believe that good can overcome evil.

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