re: #92 EPR-radar

This reminds me of the most decisive argument in favor of the US use of nuclear weapons in Japan at the end of WWII that I am aware of.

The way history went, there were only two choices available:

A) Nuclear weapons were used in small numbers at the end of WWII.

B) Nuclear weapons were not used in WWII, but were used in large numbers at the outset of WWIII.

Pick one.

To me, the best argument remains: Using the A-Bomb offered a way to end the war with far fewer Allied casualties than any other approach.

It also offered the opportunity to prepare for Operation: OLYMPIC, had that operation’s invasion of Kyushu proved necessary: Hiroshima was the HQ of Kyushu’s defense force, the 41st Area Army, and Nagasaki was a key munitions production center. Both would have had to be neutralized as part of any invasion.