[redgolum]

So how would you have ended the war?

[Alberta's Child]

How about a six-month blockade of the country, for starters -- if only to see if it would work?

One of the bizarre aspects of the article at the top of this thread is the focus it places on Japan's national morality, militaristic culture, etc. What makes this so silly in the context of justifying the use of atomic bombs on civilian populations is that in 1945 the U.S. decided to drop one of those two bombs on one of the only places in Japan (Nagasaki) that had a sizeable Christian population.

I'm sorry, but I smell "bullsh!t" on this one.