75 Years Ago Today: Hiroshima

Seventy-five years ago a single bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and its detonation and another one a few days later ended World War II.  The atom bombs.

They were a horrible weapon without a doubt and it is my belief that had they not been dropped, the capture of Japan would have resulted in even more deaths than those two blasts.  And, I am talking about both Japanese lives and American ones.

I have no doubt that the Japanese were prepared to fight to the last man, woman and child.  And that is considering they no longer really had the ability to win the war or stop the Americans.  American casualties would have been a minimum of 100,000 and perhaps many more.

So, as bad as their use was, it ended the war right away and that was a good thing.

--GreGen