“Arthur T. Hadley said recently 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.” People holding such views, he notes, “do not come from the ranks of society that produce infantrymen or pilots.” “
-Paul Fussell
The Japs are damn lucky that we dropped the bombs before the Russians came in with any strength...just imagine if Tokyo got the “Berlin” treatment..yes, damn lucky.