Ken Kittlitz wrote:
> > The
They could have accepted Japan's conditional surrender. Japan's
infrastructure and military were in tatters by that point. Apologists
for the bombing like to frame it as the lesser of two evils claiming
that more people would have died in an invasion, but there was no need
for an invasion. Japan was in no position to pose a threat to the United
States by that time.
> >US had already served up a whole mess of tits for their received tats
> >prior to those two acts of mass murder.
>
> What do you see as the U.S. military's other options having been at that
> point (i.e., immediately prior to dropping the bomb on Hiroshima)?
The only country to use nuclear weapons against their enemies was the United States, and they used them against an enemy that was already defeated and incapable of retaliation.
-KMO