[henkster]

I wonder if the editor of that newspaper had a son or nephew slated for the first wave ashore in Operation Olympic. Or whether he was going to sit down to a decent, filling meal that night. Because the average Japanese was starving, and the fanatical psychopaths running that country would have starved every child to death in order to continue the war. Only the bombs stopped that from happening.

The only subsequent solace about the terrible nature of the bombs is that in the past 70 years, none have been used.

[colorado tanker]

Only the bombs stopped that from happening.

Yes, and it took two. The canard that even the United States could only build one had to be disproved. Only after the second bomb did Suzuki play out his sleight of hand to get the Emperor to order the Army to surrender.

It was truly evil what the Army commanders were putting the Japanese people through.

[Hebrews 11:6]

He was merely echoing what the Vatican had pronounced two days earlier ("m s, m d").

My refutation of the Vatican's shallow, uninformed stance

[PAR35]

The only subsequent solace about the terrible nature of the bombs is that in the past 70 years, none have been used.

If you don't count that warning shot that LBJ took at Mississippi to get them in line on his 'Civil Rights' program.