Decision to Drop the A-Bomb

The reason that this video was released by NBC was to commemorate the 50th anniversary of dropping of the atomic bomb. However, it was also an attempt to educate people on the horrible effects that the bomb brought on Japan. They take a lot of time pointing out the amount of casualties in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and also describing what radiation poisoning did to the people who were not killed by the initial blast. More than half of the people in Hiroshima died a painfully extended death by radiation poisoning. However, Americans at the time were unaware of this and only knew that the Japanese had surrendered, so they were celebrating. It seemed to me as if the video was trying to get the viewer to question their beliefs on the decision to drop the bomb, what with all of the personal interviews with the survivors about how their life was changed by the bomb and what they had to go through after the bomb was dropped. Was dropping the bomb the best choice? Probably not. But it was necessary to end a war that would have probably taken more lives if it had not been used.