Christian scholars say no war

[Barry Deutsch]

> The U.S. nukings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were as much terrorist
> acts as anything else. I think they were justified terrorist
> acts--they succeeded in bringing an end to the Japanese militarist
> government, and did so with a much lower butcher's bill than any
> conceivable invasion of Honshu. But that doesn't change their
> character...

This assumes that it would have been implausible to end the war without
either dropping the nukes or doing a full scale invasion of Japan. Many
current historians don't feel that's a safe assumption.

Barry