Was the atomic bomb a good reason to go to war?

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The united states did not go to war over the atomic bomb. We used it to end a war. During WWII there was a race to build the bomb, originally it was going to be used on Germany but Germany fell. Japan however contuined to fight on with tenasity. Japan showed no signs of wanting to surender they were conducting many suicde attacks, even to the point of training its civilian citizens to attack invading americans with shapened sticks. If America had invaded the main island of japan as was planed the loss of human life (both Amercican and Japanese) would have been astronamical so it was decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan to let them know we had weapons of mass destruction and we would use them. After the second bomb was dropped Japan surrendered. Although the bombs were dropped on cities and many civilians were killed many many more would have been killed had the United States conducted a conventional invasion.

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