Reply #5: they were also suing for peace [View All]

once the japanese 1 condition was agreed to, the war ended, in spite of some objections from fanatical warriors, from a minority in the military.

and the crysthanthemum throne remains to this very day as the longest unbroken imperial throne in the world and as a witness to the wisdom of this decision.

"And I wonder how 'barbaric' those military leaders considered the firebombing of Tokyo which is estimated to have killed more civilans than either atomic bomb."

they knew too well how barbaric that was and presumably is why they protested the new one in order to SAVE LIVES.

but it is simply NOT true that more died in the tokyo firebombing when the tally alone from hiroshima is approaching a quarter MILLION people.

"One should also consider whether the actual use of the bomb in war moved the consequences from the theoretical to the actual and kept the world from subsequently resorting to use of nuclear weapons in subsequent conflicts to much worse individual and cumulative effect."

the only thing our SHOCK-n-AWE of the world did was foster an arms race that we have still not escaped from and may well be all our undoing.

"THE DECISION TO USE THE ATOMIC BOMB"
http://www.doug-long.com/debate.htm

"Hiroshima is the 2nd most horrid word in the american lexicon succeeded only by NAGASAKI" - Kurt Vonnegut

peace