David,
The Genie is out of the bottle. Deterrence is an inescapable reality now, and if we were to unilaterally disarm or foreswear the use of nuclear weapons we would be well on the way to being subjugated by those powers which have no problem with nuclear blackmail.
It is an indisputable fact that using the atomic bomb saved millions of Japanese lives – maybe saving their country from extinction. It saved hundreds of thousands of American lives.
I looked at the naval quarantine issue and we just would not have been able to afford to maintain it indefinitely until the bushido code and culture was destroyed, and its threat to Greater Asia ended.
And the Soviets got the nuclear technology from spies working in the Manhattan project. One of the scientists named Fuchs made sure Stalin got the good stuff from us. The Rosenbergs were the conduits. Some think that Oppenheimer knew what was going on, and just looked the other way because he also was a man of the Left.
It is doubtful that the Soviet Union would have been as aggressive as it was without the nuclear weapons technology.
I might have some small amount of respect for the pacifists if they broke away entirely from their socialist allies. But they don’t, because, in the end, they find that they they have more in common with the Marxists than they do with America.
