Japan had proven itself to be a stubborn unrealistic foe throughout the war, and their stand and fortitude would not have changed even if we had laid siege to their island for 100 years. I often wondered if a bombing site on a nearby island might have convinced them, but although only three days separated the two atomic bombs they did not change their resolve, there was no point in expecting anything to change the Japanese people’s tenacity and fortitude to not accept surrender.

This is evident in the mass suicides before and after the bombing as defeat loomed near in the future for the Japanese soldiers in combat and the civilian population of the devoted fundamentalist Japanese populace. If the first bomb in Hiroshima didn’t change their indignation, then the second one was merely a point made to convince them that we had our own resolve to continue an accumulative bombing campaign to a point of annihilation.

The humane viewpoint of the bombing is mute to, for at the time there were so many compiled atrocities by the Japanese military that point-counter point is a foolish and senseless endeavor. The original point is simply put, we should stay off war in all forms unless as a last resolve and then surely not arbitrate its usage against the voices of peace mongers who accept no answer other than their own.

Japan had assaulted and declared war upon China and the US in a vain attempt to gain superiority at a time when they felt that the US was weak from having to fight the German War campaign, and as was said “Awakened a sleeping giant” in the process. Its war campaign was full of inhumane uncivil and horrific abuses against civilian populations and war POWs.

Their code of honor in civilian life and military protocol prevented the idea of surrender, and excused inhumane treatment of their foes since as so with the Germans, they felt themselves a superior race. The obliterations caused by the atomic bombs were simply and truthfully horrific, yet in war, horrific is a common definitive. War if waged, should be wielded with stern determination in itself to shorten its nightmarish scenario.

The atomic bombings were just that and if used early on would have saved the horror of war from being felt by sunken war ships with drowning, shark eaten soldiers at sea and starving, disease ridden people in occupied territories. The bombings of civilian populations would have been lessened, yet the world had felt that nightmare with the recent bombing campaigns in London and Berlin, so Japan was no one special to be exempt from the casualties felt in war.

They had enjoyed their glories and in an effort not unlike revenge, but mainly resolve to end the war, the atomic bombs were justified, considering that any excuses not to use them would simply have cost the world hundreds of thousands more in the lives of the innocent and not so innocent involved. If it were as simple as today with technology changes, the US could have set offshore and used cruise missiles and implemented targeted smart bombing strikes to neutralize the Japanese war effort.

Yet, the time was then and not now and the US used what was laid at hand for them. That leaves the point-counter point pretty much answered, except for those whose denial fortitude is as stubborn as the Japanese, simply put. For those who chose to hold no answer but their own, the bomb of truth will not help, for stubbornness is their god, and denial their bible.

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…If a bomb built back then could cause so much destruction, imagine what a modern and more powerful bomb could do. I fear for the future of all mankind.

I would first have noted that the smart and halfway-sane generals were telling me NOT to bomb civilians.

Then I would recall that I was a Christian, elected by Christians, and that the generals were saying that to slaughter the Japs would be unChristian barbarism.

Then I would wait a week and actually talk to the damn Japs and tell them they could keep their emperor so long as they abandoned colonialism and accepted a USA base.

Meanwhile the USA navy would encircle the island and prevent oil and food from feeding the Japanese war machine.

Then I would have had Oppenheimer executed for being a Communist spy.