>>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.
"No excuse for using the bomb or for Dresden"
Sure there is, we wanted the war over. We needed to win and win in a fashion to told the losers that there was no doubt they had lost. We needed to know we would not have to fight the Japanese again. Ever. Fatman and Little Boy did that. Do I agree with deliberately targeting civilians? Only when it is practically guaranteed to save AMERICAN lives, in the end the only lives I truly care about.