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Detroit free press opinion6/27/2023 ![]() There is a similar partisan divide: 74% of Republicans but only 52% of Democrats see the use of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II as warranted. Seven-in-ten Americans ages 65 and older say the use of atomic weapons was justified, but only 47% of 18- to 29-year-olds agree. Not surprisingly, there is a large generation gap among Americans in attitudes toward the bombings of Hiroshima. In Japan, only 14% say the bombing was justified, versus 79% who say it was not. At the same time, only 29% of Japanese said the bombing was justified, while 64% thought it was unwarranted.īut a 2015 Pew Research Center survey finds that the share of Americans who believe the use of nuclear weapons was justified is now 56%, with 34% saying it was not. In 1991, according to a Detroit Free Press survey conducted in both Japan and the U.S., 63% of Americans said the atomic bomb attacks on Japan were a justified means of ending the war, while only 29% thought the action was unjustified. In 1945, a Gallup poll immediately after the bombing found that 85% of Americans approved of using the new atomic weapon on Japanese cities. But opinions are changing: Americans are less and less supportive of their use of atomic weapons, and the Japanese are more and more opposed. Americans have consistently approved of this attack and have said it was justified. This first use of a nuclear weapon by any nation has long divided Americans and Japanese. Death estimates range from 66,000 to 150,000. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands of people – many instantly, others from the effects of radiation. Visitors look at a photograph of the area surrounding the Atomic Bomb Dome, captured after the atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan.
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