[Pelham]

Thank God for the Bomb, Paul Fussell

[Arthur McGowan]

Wow. You read the article in three minutes!

[AustinBill]

That's a classic article. The other must-read on this subject is John David Lewis' incomparable The Moral Lessons of Hiroshima.

Had the U.S. not used the bomb in 1945 to break the death-cult that had gripped Imperial Japan, the result would have been a far more destructive nuclear WW III ten or twenty years later. The bomb's use in this case was an unalloyed blessing for both Japan and the world.