Dropping the atomic bombs during WW2

Good luck. 1) They caused civilian loss of life which only increased anti-americanism and would just breed resentment. a. Civilian loss of life exists in every war. It is almost completely inevitable. Germany bombed Britain, Britain bombed Germany, Japan bombed us, we bombed Japan. b. Anti-americanism wouldn't breed from a bomb. If everyone who dropped a bomb was hated by the bombed, then why are we allied with Germany? Why aren't we mortal enemies with Japan? They bombed us and our allies, so according to your logic, we should resent them. c. If there was going to be resentment from bombing, then we wouldn't be the only ones subject to this. We may have dropped the biggest bomb, but Germany dropped more. So did Britain. 2) Once other countries saw that we had the ability to use such weapons it lead to widespread nuclear proliferation in Russia which ultimately lead to the Cold War. The remnants of that proliferation can still be seen in our modern day struggles where there is the threat of Iran developing nuclear weapons. a. Russia was already working on the atomic bomb when we dropped it. They didn't finish that long after we did. Also, the bomb didn't start the cold war, it prevented it from ever becoming an open war. "We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. " - J. Robert Oppenheimer. This quote was given by the man who led the project of building the atomic bomb. He was comparing Russia and the US during the Cold War. We each have the capability to kill the other, but the odds are we'll die too. Knowing that an American attack on Russia would end us kept us from attacking Russia. Russia's knowledge that attacking us would lead to their destruction kept them from attacking us. Therefore, the atomic bomb kept the cold war from breaking out into open war. b. Many countries have nuclear weapons. Iraq is just trying to keep up. We don't want them to have the weapons for 2 reasons. One, there is a risk of Al Qaeda taking over. If they get the weapons, we're screwed. Also, Iraq wants to attack Israel, who is our ally. -----My Arguments----- 1) Dropping the atomic bombs saved millions of lives. The estimated casualties for America were 1,000,000 dead. The estimates for Japan were 10,000,000 dead. 100,000 died to the bombs. That means that 10,900,000 lives were saved. As Spock said, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. " Over 10 million lives are worth more than 100 thousand. 2) The Japanese could have prevented all civilian casualties. Before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, 700,000 leaflets were dropped warning of the bomb. The entire city could have been evacuated. Instead, the Japanese spit in our face and evacuated only children. Also, the second bomb could have been prevented if Japan had surrendered after the first one. They should have known that we would drop the bomb again if we dropped it once already. It was their own Samurai code that led to the second bombing. They choose victory or death. They were reluctant to surrender. We had no choice but to bomb. 3) Hiroshima was a military hotspot. The Japanese 2nd army was based here. Also, Hiroshima was big in war industry. 4) Bombing happens in war. We were ready to invade Japan. We were going to bomb them anyway. What's the difference between 10 thousand bombs falling in bulk upon the city, and one massive bomb destroying it all at once? Either way, it's razed to the ground.