[colorado tanker]

If you take what happened in the ghastly Okinawa campaign and use the results to project what would have happened in a ground campaign through the home islands, many, many more civilians would have died than died in the two nuclear explosions. Factor in the millions of military casualties and the conclusion is inescapable: the nuclear bombs saved lives and saved the Japanese infrastructure from complete destruction.

[DeweyCA]

Factor in the millions of military casualties and the conclusion is inescapable: the nuclear bombs saved lives and saved the Japanese infrastructure from complete destruction.

It saved millions of lives, both Japanese and American. And that is a good point about saving the Japanese infrastructure. I hadn't heard that mentioned before.