Reply #3: Agreed, [View All]

[jedr]

for one , no one really could grasp the concept of what these bombs could do. When Truman was told of it's power ( even thought he had seen the detonation) I'm sure he had little concept as to it's power, nor did even the people on the Manhattan project.....it was virgin territory. Second , it was a different time and the Japanese war machine had used enough terrorism of it's own over the past 10 or so years . I have read theory that the Japanese would have surrendered anyway, and I doubt that, the Shinto code would have fought till the last woman and child had died. And lastly we recognized the Pandora's box we had opened and no sane individual would go though with it again. Life is not perfect, and if anything is to be taken from this, it is "Never Again".........Flame away!