“Of course not. Japan wasn’t in a position to carry out any serious military threats against the U.S. by the time August of 1945 rolled around. “
Well let’s see- we had George Marshall, Chester Nimitz, Douglas MacArthur, Hap Arnold, Curtis LeMay, not to mention Harry Truman, all of whom had access to what was known about the threat posed by the Japanese military in 1945, versus the military expertise of Albert’s Child.
It’s a tough choice. How will I ever figure out who knows more about the situation in August 1945...
And Curtis Lemay isn't even appropriate to include in a list like that. He openly admitted that he would probably be prosecuted for war crimes if the U.S. lost the war, because of the heinous nature of his war strategy ... so I'll let him stand as his own judge an jury on that one.
I'll even go so far as to suggest that Lemay -- and probably the others as well -- weren't even planning their war strategy around the defeat of the Japanese. More likely, they were fighting the next war to defend America's new global empire from the Soviets.