[sneakers]

My dad’s battalion was set to participate in the invasion of Japan. If not for the bomb, he probably would have been killed. Casualties would have been extremely high - on both sides. I doubt that I would be here today.

Yep, the peaceniks can stick it where the sun don’t shine.

[dirtboy]

That's the irony - the A-bombs in all likelihood saved millions of lives by ending the need for a Home Island invasion. Conventional bombing would have continued as well and probably killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Some people are just too wedded to their liberal idiocy to think through things rationally.

[Verginius Rufus]

Same thing here. My father was wounded on Okinawa and was in the hospital when the bomb was dropped, but he would have been fit for duty in time for the invasion...in which he would have had a good chance of being killed.

Had there been an invasion, the number of dead Japanese civilians would have been vastly higher than the number who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not to mention the vast numbers of American military men and Japanese military men who would have died.

The only argument against using the bomb would be to show that Japan could have been persuaded to surrender without it, and no one has managed to do that.