virus: The Bomb

KMO (kmo@c-realm.com)
Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:54:44 -0800

Ken Kittlitz wrote:

> > The
> >US had already served up a whole mess of tits for their received tats
> >prior to those two acts of mass murder.
>
> What do you see as the U.S. military's other options having been at that
> point (i.e., immediately prior to dropping the bomb on Hiroshima)?

They could have accepted Japan's conditional surrender. Japan's infrastructure and military were in tatters by that point. Apologists for the bombing like to frame it as the lesser of two evils claiming that more people would have died in an invasion, but there was no need for an invasion. Japan was in no position to pose a threat to the United States by that time.

The only country to use nuclear weapons against their enemies was the United States, and they used them against an enemy that was already defeated and incapable of retaliation.

-KMO