Dropping the Atomic Bomb

Dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not justified at all on our part. The main issue is that hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens were killed on impact either from the bomb or from the radiation that followed it. These were not just the people who had bombed Pearl Harbor, but rather innocent children and other innocent citizens who had done nothing to deserve their fate. I am sure that many more Americans would have spoken up about the catastrophe that we caused if they had known someone who was directly affected by it, but the sad fact is that, for many Americans, it did not affect them directly, so they kept quiet about the issue. We should have come up with some other way to punish the people who had directly attacked us, and only those people. At the time, Japan was believed to have been "leaving" the war soon anyways. America made an aggressive and ill-founded decision because the end of the war was coming shortly. In addition, the bombing made us look inhumane and uncaring. It also "singled us out" in a negative way. In conclusion, America's decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary, and it helped further portray us as a ruthless and aggressive country.