[Alberta's Child]

For all that Japan has accomplished since they surrendered, they have never really fully acknowledged their total destruction and horror they released on Asia and US. Why they still get away with it is beyond me.

1. They aren’t white.

2. They weren’t historically Christian.

3. They were no different than many other Asian cultures in their treatment of foreigners and peasants.

[schurmann]

“They aren’t white...They weren’t historically Christian...They were no different than many other Asian cultures in their treatment of foreigners and peasants.”

Pretty condescending.

Counterfactuals are suspect, but can any serious respondent here actually believe that atomic bombs would not have been used against Germany, if they had not surrendered first?

It was just dumb luck that the Third Reich didn’t make atomic bombs first. Their physicists made math errors and concluded that no feasible munition could be developed. By the time they figured it all out, support for R&D had been directed elsewhere.

American development of long-range bombers was centered around the possibility that Britain might fall, necessitating attack from airfields more distant. These efforts preceded formal American involvement: the B-29 program dated to 1939 and ultimately cost more than the Manhattan Project. The B-36 program was approved in 1941.