08-06-2017, 02:25 PM
(08-06-2017, 12:17 PM)jason Wrote: I'm not even sure dropping the second bomb on Nagasaki was necessary. An argument can be made that that one was aimed more at Stalin and the Soviets... But yeah; it was a fitting end to a war littered with war crimes.
The Japanese leadership was not ready to surrender until after Nagasaki. We will never know for certain, but it is not likely they would have surrendered after the one. At least we didn't have to use any more of them.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
