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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: epicure who wrote (222660)3/6/2007 11:58:12 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
At the time of the atom bombs, the invasion of Kyushu was scheduled for November 1945. The War Dept estimated a million American casualties from the invasion, killed and wounded. What it had cost to take Okinawa was fresh in everybody's minds. The Japanese at this time were training schoolkids to resist with bamboo spears, everybody must resist to the death was the message.

Paul Fussell wrote a book of essays called "Thank God for the Atom Bomb" where he makes the case. His own case, one could say, since he was one of the Marines waiting in the Pacific for orders to invade Japan, orders that were regarded as near certain death.
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