- RockdaleRooster
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Besides Japan would never have gotten nuked if it had not become militaristic and invaded China, Burma, Guam, The Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Manchuria, Formosa, and US territories in the Pacific (And many more than I said). They started the war America did not want and we finished it. That's just war. I will always believe that dropping the bombs was an infinitely better option than an invasion of Japan. Japan was ready to fight to the bitter end and then keep fighting and an all out invasion would have been nothing short of genocide of the Japanese people. War is hell and none of the options were a good one but dropping the bombs saved more lives than it claimed. It has also lead to Japan being a very peaceful country as well as Japan not having any nuclear weapons and no interest in making them. Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been rebuilt and are now prosperous cities, they are not irradiated craters like some people seem to think they are. And Barefoot Gen is not by any stretch of the imagination a credible source in this debate.
My views in a lump.