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.
"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."
At least your heart was in the right place! I was watching a some show discussing various ways in which the US was planning an invasion of Japan proper. It was not pretty. Massive US losses even with clearing the landing area with nerve gas and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in the process. We had been staging nerve gas in the Pacific theater for just such a need. I'm thinking they did just the right thing.
"It would have been dropped in Europe as well if we had it at the time."
Undoubtedly.
""Compassion" comes after the war, if ever considering the foe we're up against."
This seems to be a common philosophy with great statesmen. Churchill, Lincoln. Look at our treatment of Japan after we defeated them. Just compare countries that the Soviet's defeated versus those we defeated. I think that fact alone would discredit anyone who says the US had racist feelings against the Japanese.