[QUOTE=WB627;10862465]Frankly, I am grateful for the dropping of the atom bombs, horrible as the effects on those nearby were. I also understand that it saved many lives, both allied and Japanese. The Japanese could have surrendered after the first bomb, the writing was on the wall, and saved those who died at Nagasaki.
I concur. My Dad was on Tinian preparing for the land 'invasion'.