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Historical Title: U.S. leaders knew we didn’t have to drop atomic bombs on Japan to win the war. We did it anyway At a time when Americans are reassessing so many painful aspects of our nation’s past, it is an opportune moment to have an honest national conversation about our use of nuclear weapons on Japanese cities in August 1945. The fateful decision to inaugurate the nuclear age fundamentally changed the course of modern history, and it continues to threaten our survival. As the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock warns us, the world is now closer to nuclear annihilation than at any time since 1947. The accepted wisdom in the United States for the last 75 years has been that dropping the bombs on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and on Nagasaki three days later was the only way to end the World War II without an invasion that would have cost hundreds of thousands of American and perhaps millions of Japanese lives. Not only did the bombs end the war, the logic goes, they did so in the most humane way possible. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 5. We had to drop the atomic bombs if we didn't want millions of casualties on both sides in a prolonged war. The bomb ended it swiftly, and was the Right Thing To Do.
#2. To: Vicomte13 (#1) The Japanese were going to surrender anyway.
#4. To: Charles_Byrd (#2) "The Japanese were going to surrender anyway." No evidence of that whatsoever, but plenty of evidence that the thoroughly-propagandized Japanese people would have fought to the death, and tens of thousands--at least--American soldiers would have died in the invasion. Truman made the right call...MUD
#5. To: Mudboy Slim (#4) They would have fought to the death. And even WITHOUT American casualties in an eventual invasion, 10,000 of our allies, the Chinese, were being killed PER DAY. WHY give Japan "time"? The Chinese had no time. They were dying right then. The bomb caused immediate surrender, which ended the slaughter. This whole hand wringing about dropping the bomb is immoral. It shows an utter lack of care for the deaths of the innocent people the Japanese were going to go right on slaughtering until they were defeated and ended the war. The bomb ended it in TWO DAYS, saving hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Chinese lives, and all those American lives that would have been lost in the invasion. I don't really care about the Japanese lives, frankly. Once the war was over, I care. It's like the Germans. German whining about all of the deaths from bombing and Russian invasion? Waaa - waaa - waaa. And the British the Germans bombed? Or the Russians the Germans slaughtered? Nope. You start a war, you are a criminal, and guess what, the lives of innocent people and cops are more valuable than the lives of criminals. That's the way it is, and it is CORRECT.
Replies to Comment # 5. "This whole hand wringing about dropping the bomb is immoral." Just more anti-American propaganda from the Marxist Left...MUD
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