Yes, dropping the A-bomb on Japan was necessary WashTimesOpEd
It’s just about time for the annual bemoaning about the U.S. use of the atomic bomb to end the war againstin 1945. Yet a simple review of the historical facts shows the self-flagellation to be inappropriate and misinformed.
Although there have been quibbles about the estimates of what the cost in dead and wounded would have been to the U.S. of an invasion of, almost all informed commenters on the topic estimate the number of expected U.S. dead to have been 300,000 to 500,000. Thus, if the actual use of two atomic bombs had not persuaded the power brokers of the Japanese government to sue for peace, certainly a benign demonstration of the bomb would have had no effect.
The prolongation of the war — had the A-bomb not been used — would have resulted in further hundreds of thousands of Japanese war deaths, not to speak of the starvation of possibly millions of civilians, which was already starting to occur in the summer of 1945.was not necessary to end the war but was merely employed to intimidate the Russians with a show of U.S. military might.
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