Do I have to spell it out for you? War is not the same

Posted on: August 6, 2019 at 07:35:19 CT

thing as mass murder. Once the bomb became available, it's use against Japan was a foregone conclusion. The military passed the buck up to Truman and he approved it's use. Japan had diversified and scattered it's military industrial production to many small facilities, all situated within urban areas. Pinpoint accuracy in bombing was a myth. The Army had already given up trying to hit key industrial targets in favor of incendiary bombing of the cities. Japan's cities were already being destroyed by fire one by one. The U.S. use of an atomic bomb required only one aircraft versus the several hundreds needed to destroy Japanese cities by incendiaries. You do the math. Why risk many hundreds of American flyer's lives, when one crew could do the work?