Most Americans say 1945 N-attacks on Japan justified
A majority of American people believe the US’s use of nuclear weapons against Japan was a justified means of ending the World War II, a survey shows.
The survey, conducted by the US-based Pew Research Center on US and Japanese citizens, showed that 56 percent of Americans supported their country’s nuclear bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki back in 1945.
According to the poll, only 34 percent of Americans believe the bombing was not justified.
Fourteen percent of the Japanese respondents also said the bombing was justified, versus 79 percent who said it was not.
The US dropped atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities in 1945. Japan had carried out military attacks on the American naval base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in 1941, prompting American involvement in the Second World War in the first place.
According to the US Strategic Bombing Survey, some 333,000 people were killed. Some 80,000 died in the August 6, 1945 nuclear attack on Hiroshima and 40,000 in the attack on Nagasaki three days later.
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have long divided American and Japanese societies.
According to the Pew poll, few Americans and Japanese believe Japan owes an apology for its actions during WWII.
The survey was conducted on 1,000 people from the United States and Japan.
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