If we had not used the atomic bombs on Japan, my father would have likely been killed during the invasion and I would not have been born to post this. That’s about the size of it.
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“If we had not used the atomic bombs on Japan, my father would have likely been killed during the invasion and I would not have been born to post this. That’s about the size of it.”
Further to your point, if the atomic bombs had not been dropped on Japan, a more powerful one would have been used later in some other conflict. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while firecrackers compared to weapons yet to come, demonstrated the destructive power of these weapons.