Ending the war with the Bomb was only one of the benefits of Hiroshima and far from the most important one. After the German physicists Meitner and Hahn discovered fission it was only a matter of time before somebody somewhere took that discovery all the way and fashioned a nuclear weapon. Note, please, Americans did NOT make the discovery and had no control whatsoever over the Nazi research program that did! Meitner and Hahn had let the evil genie out of the bottle and there was nothing America could have done to prevent it! Now, who would you prefer to have the Bomb first, America or somebody else?
Given that America had the bomb, here is a CRUCIAL point: Would we have the whatever-it-took to actually use it? Consider this: America had a weapon that would end a bitter war against an enemy that was thoroughly despised and dehumanized. If we didn’t use it against the Japs (or the Nazis, but they surrendered too soon) who WOULD we use it against?
Now consider the Soviet Union under Stalin. He got the technology from us, sure, but he could have gotten it without us if we chose not to do it first. Do you really want to live in a world fashioned by a nuclear armed USSR without anybody anywhere being able to tit-for-tat Stalin or Khrushchev? You’d be speaking Russian now!!
Finally, consider the tit-for-tat angle. Stalin didn’t nuke New York or Washington because he knew we’d do the same to Moscow and Leningrad. How did he know? BECAUSE WE
HAD ALREADY DONE IT TO JAPAN! What if today’s USA-bashing helium-headed nonukenicks had been around in 1945 and moved-on.org Truman, forcing him to wimp out and not use the Bomb? Do you think for one minute that some Soviet general wouldn’t have convinced Stalin or Khrushchev that if we didn’t use the bomb against the most evil enemy the USA ever faced we certainly wouldn’t use it against the “peaceful” Soviets, especially after they soft-soaped the American MSM into painting the Soviets as our friends? Would you be willing to bet your life on that?
We did the world an enormous favor by bombing Japan BECAUSE IT INSURED THAT THE BOMB WAS NEVER USED AGAIN!
Now about Iran…
