We definately needed to do something in Japan, but dropping that bomb was a bad idea in my opinion.
In Hiroshima, there were 120,000 casualties. 60,000 of which were deaths. That was out of a population of slightly over 200,000. It was mass murder. It wasn't to get to a specific target, it was just to flex some muscle and get some revenge. We could have done that without killing so many innocents.
That was a good find ZeroCooler. I particularly liked the point this one brought up.
