Although many were opposed of the decision of the Americans to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there were some who supported it. Paul Fussel is one of these people who back up the decision of the Americans by one hundred percent. Fussel suggests that the atomic bomb was necessary because although it cost the lives of many innocent Japanese civilians, it also saved the lives of many American soldiers and civilians. This also prevented a war more dangerous war between the United States and Japan. In his paper "Thank God for the Atom Bomb  Fussel also criticizes non supporters of the Atom Bombing by saying that "people holding such views; do not come from ranks of society that produce infantrymen or pilots.  This statement means that they are ignorant and inaccurate when it comes to strategies of war, and is suggesting that there was a good reason to drop the bombs. Paul Fussel completely supports the decision of bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a member of the army and a fighter in World War II, Fussel understands the reasons the Americans had to bomb Japan. In his essay he says that their mission was "to close in with the enemy and destroy him.  He defines the word "destroy  to be aggressive and having no mercy on anyone. He states that the word "destroy  does not mean to just "hurt, frighten, drive away, or capture.  But to leave their cities demolished. Since there mission was to destroy their enemy, Fussel believes that dropping to atomic bombs on the Japanese falls on that category. Fussel also criticizes non supporters in his essay to convince his readers that the bombing were okay. He states a quote from Arthur T. Hadley that says "that those for whom the use of the A-bomb was wrong seem to be implying that it would have been better to allow thousands on thousands of American and Japanese infantrymen to die in honest hand-to-hand combat on the beaches than to drop those two bombs.  By stating this