there kids and women. Also Japan was highly fortified which meant the it could have taken years to kill finish the war otherwise and if we laided off of their front they would attack us head on. Also to contenue the war would have resulted in a large amount of debt, not to mention that fact that the Japenes had the chance to back out of the war before we even bombed them and they were the force that brought us into the war. Justified We picked Hiroshima and Nagasaki and not some other city because they were one of the only semi-large cities left in Japan. The others, such as Tokyo, had been burned to the ground by incendiary bombs. So essentially we were actually fighting a defeated enemy, but they weren't ready to give up. The incendiary bombings in Tokyo killed nearly twice to three times as many people as the Atomic bombs. If Japan wanted to give up and surrender they had a chance to do so. The atomic bombs just showed that we were going to speed things up to save our own people if they kept putting up a fight. The whole reason we kinda dropped two of them was the fact that they didn't surrender after the first one. Had Japan done the same to us we would have surrendered in a heartbeat considering how many people in the U.S. have to second guess America at every turn. No doubt this was a horrible