text: Yes. It ended WWII with as few additional US casualties as possible. We asked Japan to surrender but they refused and never would have surrendered. The alternative would have been for the Allies to invade...leading to tens of hundreds of thousands of US deaths. \n\nIt was a horrible end to the war, but from our perspective, it was the best of the many horrible alternatives.\n\nAnd after Pearl Harbor, it didn't require that much ethical\ndebate...