Should Harry Truman Have Authorized the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Japan?
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This might be an unusual viewpoint, but I think one of the reasons no nuclear weapon has been used for the last 60 years is because we DID use them, once, at the one juncture in history when we needed to do so for the greater good. Those images of destruction burned into the collective world consciousness are a very major reason the Cold War never turned hot. On a personal note, I would not be here today writing this without the bombings, since my father was training for his part in the assault troops of the first invasion wave when the bombs fell. Instead of being killed on the beaches of Honshu he came back to the U.S. and went to college and met my mom--so I have a rather strange personal relationship to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki events. Horrible as they were, they brought the war to a quicker end.
