Christian scholars say no war

[Bradford DeLong]

>  > 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

I have never been able to see where they were coming from, besides 
wishful thinking. The fascist clique ruling Japan were really weird 
and really nasty. For example, who else--bogged down in a long-term 
war in China--would decide that the thing to do was to get themselves 
into a war with Britain and the U.S., then the world's two 
superpowers?

I found _Downfall_, by... was it John Dower, very interesting on the 
end of the Pacific War...

Brad DeLong