Good post. Thanks. When I hear somone criticize the use of the a-bomb, I have to bring up the millions that likely would have died if the war had gone on for years.
When Germany was defeated, they sent one of their two largest subs to Japan with many large containers of Plutotnium for Japan to make nuclear weapons with to use against us. The sub instead surrendered to us and it is rumored that the plutonium that it contained was what was used to make one of the bombs we dropped on Japan.
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