No, I don't think anybody (anybody here at least) would blame us from using it. I personally wont celebrate it's use as it brought about a massive loss of human life. That said, that massive loss of human life saved countless allied (mostly American) lives.
During the war, Japan used ~2,800 aircraft to sink 34 ships and damage 368 others.Allied intelligence had established that the Japanese had no more than 2,500 aircraft of which they guessed 300 would be deployed in suicide attacks.
In August 1945, however, unknown to Allied intelligence, the Japanese still had 5,651 army and 7,074 navy aircraft, for a total of 12,725 planes of all types. Every village had some type of aircraft manufacturing activity. Hidden in mines, railway tunnels, under viaducts and in basements of department stores, work was being done to construct new planes.
At the early stage of the invasion, 1,000 Japanese and American soldiers would be dying every hour.
Agree 100%!I believe I am here today because of those bombs. My father and his unit were still in Germany after the Germans surrender. They were told to enjoy the few months of peace until they received their orders to head to Japan for the invasion. Thankfully those orders never came.
Yes, those bombs saved more lives than we can imagine. Also, with the majority of the Japanese men out of the country, the women and children were being schooled on how to repel an American invasion. Imagine the headlines even then about US baby and women killers. Thank God we never found out.
Here is a great article about the "What IF..."
http://www.bobpearcy.com/the-rest-of-the-story-had-we-not-used-the-bomb/
A nice little jem:
During the war, Japan used ~2,800 aircraft to sink 34 ships and damage 368 others.
I'm not saying I wholly agree with this article disputing our casualty claims, but it makes for interesting discussion.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Ralph Raico
No, I don't think anybody (anybody here at least) would blame us from using it. I personally wont celebrate it's use as it brought about a massive loss of human life. That said, that massive loss of human life saved countless allied (mostly American) lives.
Estimates were over 1 million American lives lost just establishing a beachhead. I don't think that using Nukes was a good decision.. it was the best of all the bad choices. I'm never one to cheer the lost off human life...
I'm not saying I wholly agree with this article disputing our casualty claims, but it makes for interesting discussion.