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

So what alternative end to WWII in the Pacific do you evision? Seems 
to me that ending the war without a "regime change"--leaving the guys 
who had butchered between five and ten million Chinese civilians in 
charge--would have been a *very* bad idea...

Brad DeLong