Although there are many theories about the incentive for the decision to drop an atomic bomb on Japan, they mainly revolve around traditionalist and revisionist versions of the intention to push Japan to surrender so as not to increase American casualties or to consolidate the dominant power position of America. in relation to the Soviet Union, I believe that no reason, nor any reason for that matter, can truly justify the bombing of civilians. Killing innocent people is murder that cannot be justified as self-defense. Doing something wrong and applying the justification of "self-defense" by killing an innocent cannot be applied as a real, true justification, but rather as mass murder. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay I personally believe that the dropping of that bomb on civilians was a cruel act and can be compared to the cruelty that civilians suffer in Syria today from the Syrian government. If they had dropped the bomb on the Japanese army, the justification would have been completely different. These are the aggressors, the ones America needed to defend itself from. Not the tens of thousands of innocent people killed because every person involved in the decision to make them pay was reckless and evidently did not deserve their position. Weapons of mass destruction are intended to protect potential victims from attackers, not innocents! When someone is trying to attack you, will killing their friends, family, or people who aren't trying to attack you solve the issue? This is not guaranteed, and even if it were, it would be unfair. Why target an innocent person to stop an attacker when you can target the attacker? This way the innocent will be able to live and the attacker will no longer be able to attack you. We should focus on the Japanese military who started the war and attacked for no good reason, not on those unfortunate souls, many of whom if they had had the chance to live could have made a great lifelong positive impact, unlike their military men who are remarkably cruel-hearted. Therefore no reasoning or explanation can justify the killing of civilians. Even if, for example, there had been 100,000 more American deaths than had already occurred in the history of World War II if we had not dropped a bomb, it would have been better than killing civilians, since the victims of Americans defending their country and reacting rightly would ensure martyrdom and they would be remembered as heroes. This act that occurred was the exact opposite of heroic.