The human cost of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was worth paying

Despite the terrifying toll of the first atom bombs, not dropping it would have cost more lives.

I’ve lately had cause to remember what for me and countless others was one of the most unforgettable moments of our lives. This came on August 6 1945, when we heard the quite unbelievable news that a whole city in faraway Japan had been destroyed in a flash, by a single, mysterious new kind of bomb, infinitely more powerful than anything the world had known before.

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(Hat tip: KimR)