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Originally Posted by August
I see McBees point. If the first use of nuclear weapons had occurred later, say during the 1950s or 60's, when the technology had been improved perhaps the death toll from it would have been a couple hundred million instead of a couple hundred thousand.
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You have the right answer.
We came this close {............} to starting a nuclear war over the Cuban missle crisis. The weapons used in this battle would have been H-bombs, not the inefficant a-bombs dropped on Japan. Mankind now knows how horrible these weapons are, and we haven't used them since.
But it sounds like you like to learn the hard way.
And that academic professor obviously wasn't slated for invasion, was he. I've interviewed vetrans who were next in line to die for our country. And they were all for the dropping of the bombs.:hmm: I respect their opinion much more than some armchair professor.
"Better even than the discovery of penicillin and the modern medical revolution. Better even than the invention of spectacles, or fire, or the agricultural or industrial or internet revolutions, or the discovery of electricity...we have the celebration of the instant incineration of tens of thousands."
And none of this matters much if the whole world is radioactive.
I am thankful for all of the vetrans who gave their lives so we could be free today.