To: Arthur McGowan
Why Did the U.S. Unleash Its Terrible Weapon? To save US military lives.
'nuff said.
6 posted on
05/29/2016 6:35:24 AM PDT by
Arm_Bears
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To: Arm_Bears
And so we wouldn’t be speaking Japanese now.
To: Arm_Bears
Wow. You read the article in five minutes!
To: Arm_Bears
And Japanese lives were saved, too. Many more Japanese casualties if an invasion had been fought than would have died by the bombs.
31 posted on
05/29/2016 6:50:46 AM PDT by
xzins
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To: Arm_Bears
Why Did the U.S. Unleash Its Terrible Weapon? 1) To save US military lives by winning the war early.
...2) Prove to the military that the weapon could be militarized.
3) Show the Russians that WE had a working, militarized, deliverable device to twarth them running from Eastern Germany to Portugal/UK, Japan, Korea, etc.
4) Virgin city bombed to see what the effects were (tactially) and show the world that we were willing to use it (strategically).
50 posted on
05/29/2016 7:11:48 AM PDT by
DCBryan1
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