> > 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.
No, and it was probably directed more against the USSR than Japan anyway.
Doug