Pride in Destruction

The people of the US were assembled in an immense crowd that acclaimed Japan's surrender in WWII. It was something to celebrate at the time because the US could have been in the place of Japan and completely destroyed. What I find heinous is the ignorance of the US civilians (at the time) on what exactly dropping the atomic bomb did to Japan. All they did was celebrate and take pride in the victory of the US. Had something like that happened to the US, civilians would not act so gratified about their actions. The bombing extremely affected the people's lives and still significantly has an impact on people now. I believe NBC decided to air this piece in 1995 because they wanted to show the US's rationale and explanation as to why the bomb was dropped since so many people are questioning and finding what the US did was very inconsiderate and what not.