The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki where justifed actions.

The order will be refutations and then defense. //Refutations\ I'm going to lump my opponent's 1 and 2 together because they are almost the same. The reason this is false is because a land invasion would not have been necessary. The problem starts with the fact that the United States had and 'unconditional surrender' policy whereby we did not want any nation to surrender conditionally but this simply would not work in the case of Japan. It is true that Japan would not surrender unconditionally but they were willing to surrender in May 1945 as long as they could keep their emperor, a conditional surrender. This fact was know by president Truman but he ignored it. Ultimately the emperor was allowed to remain on the thorn after the bombings and we essentially agreed to the conditional surrender AFTER we killed civilians. (I can go more in depth into this as the debate progresses)[1] The fact is that a land invasion simply would not have been needed and thus my opponent's first and second claims fall. //Defense\This is true but in Hiroshima 140,000 people were killed and 80,000 were killed in Nagasaki in the course of two days. The other important point regarding the civilian deaths is that, as shown above, they were completely unnecessary and were just to show we are stronger. Nextly, after the atomic bombings massive amounts of radioactive fallout rained down upon the earth and the effects are still being felt today.[2] The effects have been felt since. "The populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki now have among the highest rates of liver cancer in the world."[3] The rate of cancer has also been greatly increased. Cancer rates have increased from 217 to 301 out of 100,000 in males and 176 to 197 out of 100,000 in females.[3] (This is during a year) The highest cancer rate in males in the US is 163 out of 100,000 and for females, 113 out of 100,000, A massive difference! [4] So here we can see that the civilian causality level is massive. Regarding anti-americanism, it is true we are allies but that was not so right after the war. Anti-americanism was ramped. "I hate Americans, they dropped the bomb" was the exclamation of one of the survivors. Regarding the people being rallied to fight, they were willing and ready to surrender months before the actual dropping of the bomb yet we ignored that and went right ahead. The bomb saved no lives but killed over 200,000 civilians in two days and lead to increased rates of cancer and the highest rate of liver cancer in the world. On proliferation: proliferation is different than just building something. Proliferation is essentially an arms race which is what happened after we used the atomic bombs. Proliferation occurred in Russia because they didn't want to be weaker than us and then we didn't want to be weaker than them and it just built up and built up. You didn't address this at all and thus it flows through the round. Also, your quote doesn't even mention nuclear weapons and I'm fairly sure it was written before World War II. (Next round can you try to link the sources like I did? It's a lot easier.) [1] http://www.lewrockwell.com... [2] http://timeinmoments.wordpress.com... [3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... [4] http://rex.nci.nih.gov...