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"Romeo Rondeau" wrote:

it's called "war".. people get killed, deal with it.

Japan had already made plans(and shared them with the USA) to surrender
before the bombs flew
They were arranging when and where the surrender was to take place
the bombing did not save even dozens of america lives
get your facts straight before posting crap like this

I'm calling bull**** on that one George. Prove it. What is certain is that
Japan was preparing the bloodiest reception ever for the Allies if they had
invaded Honshu. They would have burned Truman at the stake if he had a
weapon that could have saved hundreds of thousands of american lives and
didn't use it. This doesn't sound like a surrender, does it? As a matter of
fact even after the first bomb, they still didn't surrender, it took two and
the biggest bluff in history (that we had hundreds of them) before they
finally gave up. Now, there is the matter of East Germany. Russia was
getting a little too big for their britches, too. Truman didn't want ****
with the Soviets, he had to show them he was unafraid to use a weapon of
mass destruction, especially one that only the United States possessed at
that time. The use of the atomic bomb not only saved us lives from invading
Japan, but it made the Soviets shake in their shoes, they were having
thoughts about war with the US so they could take over the rest of Europe.
Most likely we avoided another war with a much bigger opponent. This is also
what started the cold war, which in the end after years of both countries
suffering economic woes from the military spending, went our way and we were
left as the lone super power. There are a lot of things that were factors in
the dropping of an atomic bomb on Horoshima and Nagasaki, true... but Japan
surrendering wasn't one of them. Get your facts straight, George.




The fact Japan had already clled in its generals and was perpareing a
surrender at the time of the bombing is not open to your revisionist
history
It was documented on the history channel(film of it as it was happening)
just a few nights ago
and I believe them., not you
George