Artistmosi, I just went on a little trip through my computer to Hiroshima, the pictures show a very lovely city with many gardens, trees, flowers, animals, birds and humans, I did not see any mutations, the agriculture in the aeria seems to be flourishing, or are you stuck in a time warp in 1945, the world , mother nature, has a very great capacity to heal itself, mother nature herself has a great ability to do harm to there is a snake in the pacific called the Brown Tree Snake that has the ability to survive for long period, find any crack to hide in, and no natural enemies, it has wipe out 10 bird species, several bats spicies, and is now going after the ground dwelling skink, purtty good wipe out by mother nature don't you think, and not one bit of radiation, just Darwins theory of survival, And no we still would have won the war with out nuclear weapons, but at a much higher cost in human lives both Japanese and American, we had beaten our way to the very doorstep of Japan, and if not for The Nuclear Weapons WE WOULD HAVE HAD TO INVADE THE MAIN LAND ! and now you justify the loss of life that would have occured in doing so, how would you like to have been the person to write the letters to all the families that would have lost their sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers........... Lives were saved, and nature repaired herself, with a little help from Man. Look at the reaconstruction, that the United States did in Japain to help them back from the war they started and we finished. Name another country so magnamious in history to it's defeated enemys as to reconstruct their nation for them!