02-25-2009, 09:17 PM
Mac-A-Matic wrote:
Hell, we even nuked the Japanese because they were considered inferior people to Whites.
I can't believe that anyone still says this. The endgame scenarios of the war in Europe and Japan was so completely different. In any case, we'll never know exactly what Truman would have done if the Trinity test had been conducted before VE day. I'd guess that he wouldn't have used nuclear weapons in Germany simply because the Germans were essentially defeated then; it was just a matter of time before Germany fell. On the other hand, the invasion of Japan was not something that anyone relished. Have you forgotten that the fire bombings of Japanese AND German cities killed far more people than the two nuclear weapons dropped on Japan? It was TOTAL war back then, and nuclear weapons were just a bigger bomb since nobody else had them then.