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You want disturbing? Read the accounts from Navy salvage divers who had to go down into ships like the Oklahoma, the Arizona and the West Virgina at Pearl Harbor and remove the bodies of all those young kids who went down with those ships.

That bomb saved my late father-in-laws life. He was a Marine wounded on Iwo Jima and were it not for that bomb he and millions of other American kids might not have lived to see their next birthday. I'm one American who is sick and f**king tired of hearing this bs about how horrible the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were. America didn't want war but Japan did and they paid the price for it. Do you think if the Japs had such a weapon and possessed it on Dec.7.1941 they would have hesitated to use it? F'ing world gets all weepy every time August 6th. and 9th. rolls around but it never gets weepy on Dec.7.

jmacusa said: "Do you think if the Japs had such a weapon and possessed it on Dec.7.1941 they would have hesitated to use it? "

Perhaps even more to the point, if Japan had such a weapon would they have hesitated to use it in August of 1945?

I think not.

Not only did these bombs save American lives, but Japanese ones as well.

Our military had estimates of 500,000 to 1,000,000 American casualties that would we would have suffered from an invasion of the Japanese mainland.

Those would have been our soldiers, and while it’s a horrible number, we could have recovered, albeit slowly.

The estimated casualties on the Japanese side were 2 to 5 times the American estimations. And those would have included civilians, who would have suffered much worse in an extended conflict than in the one week of the atomic bomb attacks.

A body count of 150,000 versus 2,000,000 to 5,000,000, in addition to untold suffering. Harry Truman would have been considered a monster by the U.S. and Japan to allow such a thing to happen, once it was known he had the bomb but refused to use it.

Then, we could have gone the other way and not invaded from the sea, but allowed the Soviets to do so via China.

Either way, it’s a good possibility we’d only know about the Japanese from museums and history books had we not dropped those bombs.

I agree that using the bombs was necessary to end the war. I had a cousin and a neighbor fighting in Europe and they were preparing to be sent to The Pacific to fight there.

I meant to get across that at that young age I actually cheered when 100,000 people,mostly civilians (women, elderly,and children),were killed. To me,in retrospect,there is something sad about that.