Question: What are some arguments against dropping the atomic bomb?  (scroll down for answer)

Answer:

1. The Japanese were all but defeated. Even General Dwight Eisenhower believed the war could be won through conventional means.

2. Use of the weapon would lead to an arms race with the Soviet Union, and escalate the bitter Cold War.

3. The bomb was dropped on civilians. Hiroshima was not a military base, it was a city. The same could be said about Nagasaki.

4. The Manhattan Project cost about $2 Billion. In a Great Depression, that's a lot of money to spend.

5. The environmental destruction was incredible.

6. The cancers and sickness that would result from the bombing would be experienced by the people for decades to come. The dropping of the bomb was therefore immoral.

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