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Originally Posted by LaRondo
Too many various angles to determine a single view to be right or wrong.
The Japanese devotion for the way they fought is just as righteous as the willingness to drop an atomic bomb or 2 on civilian areas as it's been done.
Maybe "the hawks" knew and may not have been victorious as they were by facing Japanese soldiers in conventional battles.
And yes, there was very clear determination behind the development of the bombs, already during the pretext of The Manhattan Project.
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It's tough to put ourselves in that environment, IMO. Germany was working on a nuke, Einstein thought so anyway and we now know he was right. Combined with their advanced (for the day) missile tech, if they'd got the bomb first, would have been a different ballgame. One wonders how many nukes they would have used on Allied cities.
The Japanese were pretty harsh in WW2. Not saying they deserved to be nuked but I can see how people at the time could have felt justified in that.