Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "Was it Wrong to Drop the Atom Bomb on Japan? | 5 Minute Video" video.

  1. By the way, I am conservative and don't regret the dropping of bombs on Japan, and even I don't believe the common explanation of nuking Japan. What the dropping of the bombs did is convince Japan that we could move from fighting a conventional war to fighting an almost "free" war that involved no men or materials, but simply flying over the island of Japan and slowly reducing it to a glowing pile of rubble. Remember that in those days nuclear bombs were not that powerful, and it would have taken dozens of nuclear weapons to bring Japan to its knees. The dropping of the second nuclear bomb was necessary because Japan, which by the was NOT stupid or without spies and probably knew something about the a-bomb before it was dropped on them, had reason to doubt that we had more than one of the weapons. They would have been right. In fact, to drop a third one would have been a problem for us. The idea of being able to fight wars with pushbuttons was short lived. With proliferation of nuclear weapons, even to just the USSR, meant that even the "unthinkable" conventional wars would be fought under a nuclear umbrella and in fact by proxy, as was exactly what happened. Thus the cost of war actually went up, not down (as it should be). As for the current crop of crybabies wringing their hands over nuking Japan, the answer is simple. Nuke 'em again. They have been getting uppity of late, and that would put an end to this whole argument.
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