Was bombing of Japan justified or needless? No sitting US president had ever visited this city, destroyed by an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945, in one of the final moves of World War II. REUTERS Aerial photographs from 1945 from the US Strategic Bombing Survey show the city of Nagasaki before and after the atomic bomb was dropped on the city August 9 1945. KYODO/REUTERS People pray for atomic bomb victims in front of the cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing, at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan. Meanwhile, the US non-profit Atomic Heritage Foundation sums up the major points of whether the bombng should have taken place in the video above.

Source: Stuff August 06, 2017 00:33 UTC