Was the Atomic Bombing of Japan Necessary?

[KillerFord1977]

I had my chance and missed it when Biden only wanted ice cream and an autopen. I could have slipped in "nuke country xxxx" on the autopen orders. may still have a chance though, Trump is crazy and ballsy enough... wonder if he like really really good whiskey "Hey,Don, Country XXX called you XXX". You gonna take that !

 

[Shibadog]

Ya gotta admit, a very small one one the assahola in Iran in ‘79 would sure have prevented a lot of bs over the last 40 years. He was in “Goom (sp?0 so it’d been “boom, no Goom”

 

[Dobbinsky]

IMO, It was at least necessary for most everyone negatively affected by Japan's war machine to find some peace by virtue of sweet revenge.

 

[Hertervillian]

Too late to ask those who would have been tasked with the job. They were fairly unanimous in their opinion. I can only honor those who were there at the time.

This business of second guessing history has gotten out of hand in my opinion. Those living at the time and in the situation were fully aware of their decisions. The Constitution is a good example, they knew why they wanted what they wanted, they lived it.

 

[MN.Militia]

We’d have 100’s of millions if not a billion more alive if it weren’t for the spread of communism. Mao Zedong wouldn’t have murdered 100’s of millions alone, Stalin with 10’s of millions murdered, Khmer Rouge 3 million… Plus all of the Americans who didn’t come back fighting the evils of communism. That probably is about 100K. Truman should have struck Moscow and Leningrad too and ended communism there… China would have been an ally if the OSS also tied up loose ends by getting rid of Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh after WWII as well and that would have saved probably around 500 million.

Patton was right... We should have kept going east until we took Moscow!! Imagine not having to live under the Cold War threat of thermonuclear annihilation at the hands of a communist oligarchy. In the last 100 years, not counting military deaths, 260 million people have died at the hands of global communism. China wouldn't be the threat it is today if we had backed Chiang Kai-Shek (the George Washington of Taiwan) for nationalist control of mainland China. And to add insult to injury, the US has NEVER acknowledged the sovereignty of Taiwan (aka Republic of China)!

Consider this: if we wiped the USSR off the map in 1946, China would have never become a nuclear power, and most likely India & Pakistan wouldn't have, either!

 

[MN.Militia]

All this having been said, I want my own recreational plutonium.