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I'm not saying that we were wrong to do so. Just saying that Christianity has no bearing on the topic. Survival is a natural reaction, and reason seems to catch the first train out when that survival is under threat.

That being said, reason predicted an even more horrific death toll if Hiroshima and Nagasaki had not been nuked. Millions of Japanese and Americans would fight and die for the Emperor or for victory over Japan.

WORSE, without the examples of the instant destruction those two Japanese and the lingering effects of radiation, that IF The Bomb had not been used, we and later Russia (and who knows who all else) would think of A-bombs as nothing more than bigger and better bombs and there would be minimal restraint to using them in a subsequent global conflict.

What today's world would look like after one major nuclear war is an exercise left to you, gentle reader, to contemplate...

(s) nully, whose father first was introduced to the Japanese off the coast of Okinawa in the personage of the Kamikaze pilot who flew bare feet over his head and struck the top of the #3 turret of the Maryland

[Robert DeLong]

I am well aware as to the decision process that resulted in dropping the nuclear bombs, and that is why I will never be critical of the decision, as it was the correct call. For it would reduce the numbers that were killed & injured, if we had taken the alternative option. A horrible decision to ponder. In addition, we forewarned them as to the damage potential that these bombs possessed. They chose to reject that warning as being nothing more than bluster.

I'm sure that you are also aware that many Japanese military leaders tried to persuade against bombing Peral Harbor, because they feared that awakening the sleeping giant and bringing them into the conflict would be a serious mistake.

The decision to drop nuclear weapons was the correct decision because it ended the war, while the bombing of Pearl Harbor was the major mistake that changed the entre course of WWII. 🙂👍