Americans are divided on whether it was right or wrong for the US to use atomic bombs during World War II
On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 9, a second atomic bomb was dropped, over Nagasaki. Do you think the decision to use nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II was right or wrong? (%)
Right
Wrong
Don't know
23
X
20
40
60
80
100
39
US adults
33
25
26
Democrats
43
26
64
Republicans
17
16
38
Independents
35
23
