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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. |
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