The Rape of Nanking was a crime against humanity.
The nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a one-two knockout punch to the regime that had brought so much death and suffering to the world.
The bombs forced the Japanese to realize they were beaten, so using them shortened the war. America was determined to win and was preparing to invade. If you'd understood anything about the island campaign you'd know that it was merciless and bloody, and that invading the Japanese mainland would have been the same slaughter on a huge scale. There would have been millions of casualties, the great majority of them on the Japanese side.
My father was on Okinawa. He expected to go to Japan next. Thank God we had the bomb.
>>My father was on Okinawa. He expected to go to Japan next. Thank God we had the bomb.
I believe God takes offense at any thanks for the bomb.
There is no excuse for it's use, for the fire bombing of Dresden and other cities.
My father, a naval aviator, had orders to ship out to okinawa for the invasion. We are very likely alive because they dropped the bomb....