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In a way it already has seretogis - notice the fact that the # killed a year by wars has dropped incredibly since 1945..
Now I really hate people who keep saying it was unneeded and what not - yes many of my thoughts are "liberal" but honestly i am very much for the dropping.
Do i think it was a low point? Yes, but it was one of those things you HAVE to do. And of course, because of it, we in a sense (ironically) made a better world by showing what it could do, and hence no sane leader in the 20th century has used the nuclear weapon again.
The bomb *did* taint the ultimate victory slightly (WW2 can very much be said a war of good vs. evil but even the ultimate victory was tainted) - and don't give stuff about how it was hell, or because there were no other options.
The fact is, there were, BUT they would've taken time and the U.S. knew that the invasion was coming up very soon and it couldn't wait that long.
The invasion of the first home island would've taken place in Nov. 1945. The fact of the matter is, the anti-war feelings in America were slowly coming up.
In fact large #s of troops from Europe were being moved to the Pacific theater - and i willsay this, a LOT (clsoe to a majority) thought of mutiny / deserting because it was simple - they fought for years against Hitler and the Wermacht and survived, only to be sent to another theater where they might very well not make it.
Feeligns were bad at home too because the war had indeed been 4 years and the prospect of another bloodier year or two was not very good for hte public.
And this is the quote that Truman heard and perhaps greatly influenced his decision:
"Mr. President what will you say to the American Public in 1946 during your impeachment trial when the public finds out that you ahd a weapon that could have ended the war but chose not to use it."
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