I remember my Dad declaring how delighted he had been with the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
His logic was simple and very straightforward. He knew that an invasion of Japan would have cost around 3 million allied soldier lives - and as he was scheduled to join the invasion forces at the first opportunity ...
Add the allied 3 million to all of the Japanese soldier losses in fighting to the death and the mathematics alone suggests that President Truman did indeed make the right choice.
The death toll from these terrible weapons on the Japanese population were actually less than 300,000.
The greatest result from the use of these bombs has put the world in tremendous fear of such weapons. Over EIGHTY years - they have never been used again.
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