Reply #73: One again....besides other facts of the war, if the Firestorm over Tokyo, [View All]

[rasputin1952]

that cost more lives than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, did not convince the Japanese leadership to surrender, and thereby end the war...only a decisive invasion of the Japanese Homeland with a massive loss of life was in the cards. No one knew how many people would have died, but the carnage would have been added to the 55 million that were all ready wiped off the planet.

I am not attempting to justify the morality of the bombings, I am merely of the thought that war is immoral in the first place anyway. To drop nuclear weapons at that time, and under the circumstances, actually pre-empted the Fire Bombings that were slated for those cities, and many more lives might have been lost under those circumstances....:(