Dropping atomic bombs on civilian populations was both morally bankrupt and completely unnecessary for one key reason:
After what we have experienced here in the U.S. over the last 3+ years, there is absolutely no reason to accept anything the government says at face value.
And that was as true in 1945 as it is today.
Total bulls***. The atomic bombs saved millions of lives, both American and Japanese.
Tell that to my father who was stationed on Okinawa in the summer of ‘45 waiting for the final assult on mainland Japan. When the bombs were dropped and Japan surrendered it was a great relief to the US troops who were expecting even greater resistance on the mainland then they encountered on Iwo or Okinawa.
I have to say that I am here today because my father didn’t have to go into the mainland in the final assult.
I good friend of mine was in the Army along with 500,000 other troops staging and waiting to invade Japan, then The Enola Gay happened and he came home. He died last year 96 yo.
Horseshit.
The “Author” of this drivel needs to read a true history of the period.
If the Japs were on the verge of surrendering, why were we marshalling our forces to invade?
Why not just blockade until the Japs surrendered?
LeMay would have torched the entire country, but he ran out of targets.
The Japs were terrified that if the Russians invaded Japan, they would go “full Berlin” on the female population. That got their attention.
The author needs to visit with one of our few remaining veterans of World War II and ask them about the necessity of the Bomb...
Where would have the first atomic bomb been dropped? Dropping those bombs have prevented similar bombs from being dropped in a war for 78 years. You can guarandamtee somebody would have dropped a nuke somewhere, sometime. Those bombs dropping have served a great purpose in the following 78 years. It showed leaders from all countries and political leanings of how bad they are.
If they hadn't been dropped, where would have they been used? Korea? Vietnam? Afghanistan? China? Iran? Cuba? Because Japan got them, no other country has.
Year. And those “great military leaders” were not going to be the boots on the ground invading a kamikaze swarm of warriors including anthrax and plague fleas left on the invasion path.
WW1 and WW2 were both needless. So there.
The continuing communist drive to revise history continues unabated...
Cleaning up history remains one of the last remaining chores for them now that they have total control of the nation...
Most serfs under the age of 40 will accept this propaganda as gospel truth, just as they have been indoctrinated to do in those government schools (K-PhD)...