"R. J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, states that between 1937 and 1945, the Japanese military murdered from nearly 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most likely 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese, among others, including Western prisoners of war"Dropping the bombs was seen as the fastest way to end the war.. war = Death.. people like to fool themselves that war is something other then what it truly is... Its horror and murder on a grand scale.. A comment about what one of the female students said about nuclear war not something she (we) have to worry about etc... Poppycock.. The risk of a nuclear weapon being detonated inside the US (or anywhere else in the world) has greatly increased sense the Berlin wall has come down) i at time wish all nuclear weapons could be destroyed.. But i live in the real world.. In the real world wishes and hopes etc are not reality. Mankind will continue to kill each other up until most likely the moment the last human takes his last breath. Sucks but that is reality.