By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / July 27, 2025I have lived now for 80 years in the only country that has used an atomic bomb against another people. I have talked with soldiers and sailors who were fighting for the U.S. in the Pacific Theater during World War II; some of them were close friends. By the time the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American people had been conditioned by war propaganda to accept almost any atrocity. A U.S. invasion of Japan was never going to be necessary, so there was no need to drop the atomic bombs to preserve American lives in an invasion. The government, with the cooperation and collaboration of the media, used propaganda to justify the use of atomic bombs 80 years ago.