adecentfellow replied to your post: i don’t know who you come into contact with but everyone i knows is aware of how devastating those bombs were to the Japanese. the US could have just not fought back, but more attacks most likely would have ensued. i think it was necessary to drop a bomb, not necessarily 2.Actually, the surrender was imminent. What I was taught in school was that the USA dropped them because they’d already put so much effort into designing, and they wanted to field test. But you wouldn’t be taught that, of course.