"And massive amounts of stupid people believed it and acted on it."
I kept waiting for the adults to show up and point out all the b.s. that was being shoveled at us 24/7. Then I realized the adults weren't being allowed to speak, and we were a nation of sheep.
Japan was free to surrender at any point after Dec. 7th, 1941.
The atomic bombs probably saved over one million Japanese lives. Curtis Lemay had thousands and thousands of heavy and medium bombers sitting idle in Europe and he had every intention of putting them to use on Japan.