Hiroshima Was/Was not justified.

When an atom bomb is dropped, you cannot avoid the killing of civilians. It is a mass destruction weapon and therefore cannot be controlled. Even though the weapon itself is dangerous, we need to consider why it was used. By itself, it may be a dangerous thing, that"s true, but how justified it is depends on the user, and why it was used " am I correct? Many people think that, all other factors aside, it isn"t okay for militaries to kill non-combatant civilians. Pearl Harbour was, yes, an attack by the Japanese military upon the American military, but it was in response to a series of blockades and provocations, whilst Hiroshima & Nagasaki were deliberate acts of terror by the American military against Japanese civilians. And yes, they may be right " all factors aside. But what people fail to see is that all factors need to be present in order to come to a reasonable conclusion. What some don"t understand is, though America had destroyed a lot of civilian lives, war is, in the end, a thing that focuses on winning and losing, not the number of lives lost. And, (with all due respect to the civilians that were sacrificed in the process of the war) one must admit that military lives are, in the case of war, more important than the lives of civilians, because they have a bigger contribution to war during a war period. Many people think Japan was ready to surrender soon anyways. More than 60 of its cities had been destroyed by conventional bombing, the home islands were being blockaded by the American Navy, and the Soviet Union entered the war by attacking Japanese troops in Manchuria. But what they didn"t consider was that Japanese soldiers were trained to never give up according to their warrior code " the Bushido. They worked directly under their emperor, the Kamikaze, and are infinitely loyal to him because they believe that he is actually a God inside a human man. That"s why they have no fear of death. A lot of debaters arguing in favour of Japan have said that a demonstration explosion over Tokyo harbour would have convinced Japan's leaders to quit without killing many people, working a bit like a warning shot from a rifle. Even if Hiroshima was necessary, the U.S. did not give enough time for word to filter out of its devastation before bombing Nagasaki. But even though 3 days isn"t enough time to do any physical kind of action, isn"t it plenty of time to make a decision between swallowing their pride and shortening the war by surrendering and saving a lot of lives rather than losing many lives? Of course, the bomb was used partly to justify the 2 billion dollars spent on its development, to test out if 1. The bomb was worth all that money, 2. It worked well and 3. It was possible to further develop the atom bomb and "modernize" it so that it would either cause more or less damage and 4. The exact extent of the weapon was as predicted. But it was built for the purpose of shortening the war, and therefore was mainly used as a method of shortening the war. The testing of the bomb and the 2 billion dollars spent on it were just minor pro"s that were achieved on the way, not the main reason it was used. The two cities that America bombed weren't of major military value, that part was true. The civilians living in Hiroshima had outnumbered the troops in the ratio five or six to one. However, it made sense for the Americans to drop bombs on the civilians rather than the militaries. Japan"s military was already weak " but civilians, they had plenty. What better way to diminish the spirit of Japan than killing as many civilian lives as they can? The bombing of Hiroshima was morally incorrect, that"s true. But isn't everything in war immoral? Since when was fighting right, even if it was for peace? Research that I have posted before. I also have a couple of questions for my opponent. 1. You state that it is a war crime, however, the UN sees that the dropping of the atomic bomb was necessary and therefor not a war crime, so how can it be a war crime if the people who made these rules do not see it as one?