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Every one who objects to the fact we dropped it, go look up the projected casualties from an amphibious landing and what would be basicly an inch by inch pacification of the Japanese Mainland.

The dead would have accumulated by the tens of thousands, to learn what it would have been like, do some indepth reading on the Okinawa campaign. The only difference would have been in scale, the invasion on the Japanese principle islands would have been worse by several powers of ten.

And the loss would have been so unequal, ten-twenty-fifty Japanese for every American.

Those who think it was horror incarnate to use the devices also overlook the Culture, Philosophy, Rigid Society and Social Order the Japanese lived under. The Emporer was God, and the code of the Bushi-to was so deeply ingrained into every crevice of the Japanese society that almost every single adult capable of using any weapon would have resisted the Gai-Jin to their last breath.

I have no animosity towards the Nipponese, they acted by their own code of conduct. From the opening days of the war to the end of it. In Western eyes they acted dishonorably, in their own they acted as they beleived. Which to this day many people do not understand, such is the gulf between we in the west and they in the east.

This continues to this day, with the Chinese. I hope that some understanding will come before the situation collapses to actual conflict.