[TheDon]

Doh! How funny! I thought you were posting this as a joke (were you?). There were only two bombs available for Japan. Dropping the only two we had was done to make sure the Japanese knew we had more than one. But we shot our load.

A far more obvious give away was the conversation at the end of the article. Too funny. Definitely not how it happened. They didn't fly atomic weapons around in the manner described. The only time they were in an airplane was on route to the target.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

I thought you were posting this as a joke (were you?).

This is a credible interview, it's not from the Onion.

As to whether there were two, or three, or a hundred bombs available was not my point in the post, although it's there to be discussed for those who want to. I am mainly interested in debunking the liberals who forever say the bomb was dropped on Japan for racist reasons, as if we couldn't do what we had to to win. It would have been dropped in Europe as well if we had it at the time.

There's also some relevancy to today's events. "Compassion" comes after the war, if ever considering the foe we're up against.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

BTW, Tibbets is something like 87 years old now, it's possible time and age has mixed up some of the facts in his mind, but it doesn't change my impression that Roosevelt or Truman treated Germany any different than Japan.