What I was taught in history class : Russia was making preparations to attack Japan but the US bombed them anyway. Nothing about reasoning from the US side.

What I heard in a documentary : Roosevelt talked to Stalin about the nukes and he said he hoped the US would ''make good use of it against the Japanese''.

EDIT: also got a question in a test asking whether the bombings could've been avoided.

Probably a fission based propulsion UFO even!

It was pretty much the ultimate male-ego stroking realized:

"NO, MINE is bigger than YOURS! What? You're not arguing that point? TOO BAD! YOU MUST KNOW MINE IS BIGGER! I'm going to whip it out, make you stare at it, and then make you suck on it, HARD, just so you can REALLY FEEL how much BIGGER I am than you are..

OH YOU THINK YOU'RE DONE? NO FuCKER, YOU MUST LOOK HOW BIG IT IS, AGAIN. And again, SUCK ON IT HARD! SUCK IT! TELL ME YOU SEE HOW BIG IT IS AND THAT I AM ALWAYS GOING TO BE BIGGER. YAAAA!! SUCK IT!!!! CHOKE ON IT AND DIE!! YAAA!!!"

You're confusing this topic with the USA and Cuba almost gone hot cigar cold war.

No, there was no actual whipping it out in that conflict.

Oh you just got fooled by the smoke screen.

What a fuckwit,you are.

Nope, political powers which decided to ally with the nazies deserve no apology. But the civilians, the children, they deserves one.

True - but in retrospect, I think Germany took responsibility for having acted evil, while the US still largely belives that their attack was somehow different from that of any other extremist group who targets civilians.

At that point of the war, anyone in a position of power was probably emphatically too numb to register the war casualty reports as anything other than pieces of paper with numbers on them, adding a few hundred thousand to already hundreds of thousands that died in the fire bombings, for instance, didn't seem too regrettable. You can bet a few other emotions can be mixed in there, revenge, pride, anger, frustration, and no doubt an erection at the godlike show of power you could now wield in a single relatively small package.

Anyway, all those tombstones are now part of history, whether you like it or not. Hopefully not.

Godzilla the animal? No, it's just acting on it's fucked up instincts.

Godzilla the film? Yes. Unreservedly.

No, because it would have to be translated by a group of Japanese school children who feel the need to say everything in a high pitch voice while running around in a wild panic for no reason (anyone who's seen enough Japanese monster/space movies will understand. Those who haven't will just have to take my word for it).