thunder wrote:
On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:51:40 -0700, Chuck Gould wrote:


I can't say that if I were in Truman's shoes at the time I would have
decided any differently- nor can anybody else who wasn't there (or even
born) at the time.

Obviously, nor can we say, with any certainty, that the Japanese would have surrendered
without the use of A-bombs. However, forty years after the war, their plans to defend against
the invasion were declassified. If they were implemented, they definitely would have cost a
major number of American lives.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro.../downfall.html


I always thought the Germans were far more deserving of having a couple
of nukes dropped on their cities, but the European war ended before that
could happen.