Franky either doesn’t understand, or doesn’t care, that upwards of half a million American lives and probably 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 Japanese lives were saved by killing approximately 250,000 people with atomic bombs. It wasn’t a good choice, but given that there was only a choice between those two alternatives, President Truman made the right choice.
Further, without the existence of large numbers of nuclear weapons that we and the Russians were pointing at each other, it is fairly likely that there would’ve been a third world war sometime in the 1960s or 70s, which would have been far more bloody than World War II. Assholes like this guy don’t think below the first layer of the onion. It shows a subpar intelligence.
The USAAF under Curtis LeMay was superheating cities for months before the Bombs were ever shipped to the Marianas; the firebombing of Tokyo in March of 45 killed more people than the Bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
The mystery to the US military at the time would have been why anyone was raising a fuss about it; the atomic bombs were simply a continuation of a months-long campaign that simply left a smaller carbon footprint.
He ought to celebrate the mercy of God.