Would it have been a moral travesty to NOT drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima? Shinto view?

Would it have been a moral travesty to NOT drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima? Shinto view? Christian view? Others?

Yes it is.Because I think those people who died by that bomb were not bad.They were civilians.The one who were needed to be killed were those officers and commanders not civilians.

It's impossible to say without knowing what would have happened if we didn't drop it.

I'll bet there are reasons for dropping it that have not come out yet,but will in the next thirty,forty years . .the Japanese Imperial Army 'doctors' used to conduct painful experiments on live,writhing,screaming humans . .may be a case of collective punishment . .but possibly an argument for 'collective guilt' also . .

I wish that bomb had never been invented. I am against all war, period. Nobody should start wars.

They didn't drop it in army sites.
So it is easy to get that killing innocents was the first priority for USA at that time.

Most likely more people would have been killed if we hadn't. The Japs were big into going down in flames as long as they could fight back. That showed them they couldn't.

Besides, the Soviets would have gotten involved, and that may have sparked a wider war.

Unfortunately, it made sense given the context.

The U.S. had been firebombing strategic targets in Japan for 6 straight months, but despite this, the Japanese absolutely refused to surrender. The choice, then, was to either invade the island or to use weapons powerful enough to force the Japanese would surrender.

Given that Operation Downfall, the projected invasion plans, had a projected casualty rate of nearly 500,000 American soldiers killed or missing, and the fact that the U.S. believed (in hindsight, correctly) that Japan's defense relied on making the invasion too costly to support, Truman chose to do the latter.

I don't have the numbers on me, but even with cancer deaths factored in, the casualties of the bomb attacks were lower than Downfall's projected casualties. Of course, it Japan hadn't surrendered after two attacks, this might not have held true (not that the U.S. had any more completed bombs at the time, but several more were in production and would be ready for deployment over the coming months, with Deadfall planned for October if the Japanese still refused).

It was a gamble, but ultimately, it's one that I have to support, but only with sadness. Really, I don't see that the United States had many options to work with at the time.