Just as has been said all along...the 2 atomic bombs dropped SHORTENED WWII, and brought to a halt years of fighting. When you vaporize a city or two, people tend to take notice and rethink their motives for continiuning a losing war. It is unfortuante that it took that much of an assault to stop the war, but hundreds of thousands MORE would have died by conventional means had it gone on. The Japaneses surrendered before the second bomb was used. The catch was, there was a demand for unconditional surrender, which involved the humiliation of the emperor. The Japanese were not prepared to accept this condition. When the second bomb was dropped, all conditions were agreed to and met. The U.S. knew that when Berlin fell on 9 May 1945. that both the U.S., and the U.S.S.R. would be scrambling to acquire as much of Hitlers V2 rocket technology and research on Nuclear fusion as possible. Both for their own use in weapons development, and to prevent it being used by the other side. While the Japanese would not surrender the honor of the emperor without the second bomb, the fact that... pokkets- good points, but that also reinforces the point that NO other nations must be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons for any reason. The current stockpiles are more than enough to obliterate major cities and cause untold destruction. Nuclear weapons today are more of a liability issue that a security deterrent. The former soviet Union for example is considered a major threat to the world due to lax security and montoring of their nuclear stockpiles. By allowing more nations to acquire them, we only increase the odds that some nutcase will want to use them after the U.S. proved to the world that they do work and should never be used again. |
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