08-07-2017, 10:13 AM
The war was won before we dropped the first bomb. It was about flexing our muscles to the Russians. Eisenhower said in 63' that the Japanese were ready to surrender, and that we did not need to drop that bomb killing all of those civilians. Truman's "Bombing Survey" he had commissioned after agreed that they would have surrendered by November, December at the latest. William Leahy also told Truman the bombs were not needed, but later Truman tried to spin it that it saved us an invasion which was refuted by Truman's "bombing Survey" report.
People can try to justify it all they want, but estimations of up to 220k innocent people died because we dropped those bombs. If any country did that today we would demand they be wiped off the earth and any one who made the decision be shot. Since we did it, and we won the war, we act as if the end justified the means. It did not.
People can try to justify it all they want, but estimations of up to 220k innocent people died because we dropped those bombs. If any country did that today we would demand they be wiped off the earth and any one who made the decision be shot. Since we did it, and we won the war, we act as if the end justified the means. It did not.
