re: #358 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

You are listening to complete nuts like Alperovitz. We know there were other motives. We know impressing the Soviet Union was another motive for using the bomb. Racism certainly played a part in the ferocity of the Pacific War, but the Japanese contention that the atomic bomb would never have been used against Germany is laughable.

The emotional reaction is the one where the atomic bombings were horrible, therefore they were unnecessary. The Japanese would have surrendered anyway, even though one atomic bomb wasn’t enough to do it. We’re into pure feel-good unicorn fart territory on this.

That’s nice but there are many more sources. So once you are done attacking the messenger you can go read my second citation and figure out a way to also attack THAT messenger but ignore the arguments in each. I await your response….