Damn right we never apologized - nor will we. Ever. WWII was a brutal, nasty total war. Throughout the Asia/Pacific region an estimated 10,000 people were dying every single day that war continued - most of them were civilians in Allied countries. In addition to that, the next 6 months promised to be far far worse with either Operation Downfall involved the invasion of Japan or the continued Naval Blockade of Japan combined with the worst harvest Japan had had in 50 years. An estimated 4-6 million people were going to starve to death in Japan in the next 6 months.
Those nuclear bombs - as horrific as they were - saved many many lives.
That’s an interesting historical context you don’t hear often in these articles.
Ditto that. That is the bottom line. Well said.
Those nuclear bombs - as horrific as they were - saved many many lives.The nuclear attack on Japan not only spared American and Japanese lives, it not only halted a Soviet invasion of Japan, but it saved an uncountable number of future lives by removing the incentive to be the first to use nuclear weapons later.