No doubt the MacArthur did not want the bomb dropped as it ended his campaign and for him to a greater mark in history than he did in the finish.

The Germans at Versaille, well what did they expect, they started the war hoping for a quick victory that never came they devastated whole countries. Now there were countries like Franc that had been badly hurt with all the fighting on territory and recompense, okay they went over the top, but not if you were French.

Now the Allies could have carried on flying bombing raids all over the Japan pouring down Napalm killing more people than the atom bomb. Still what about the Allied prisoners held by the Japanese what do you think would happen to them. A British plane crashed in Japan after peace had been declared, he was beheaded as terror flyer. Where they right to drop the bomb YES they were.

Thank God for those bombs.

That is how we felt, I have to say. Retrospect is a fine tool. There comes a time when you throw the blow that ends the fight.

A few years back I read an article about a Chinese-American woman detailing the experiences and indignities her great aunt suffered at the hands of the Japanese in Nanking. In December of 1937 the Japanese went on an orgy of rape, murder, looting, destruction and even cannabalism. Well over a quarter of a millian people died at the hands of soldier's of the rising sun. This woman who was a 15 year old girl at the time was repeatedly raped over a period of two days by so many soldier's she lost count. She prayed for death and thought her wish would be answered when an officer pulled his nambu from its holster and shot her twice. The first bullet tore a piece of her left ear off the second struck her in the neck. She miraculously survived and when her great niece asked her if the Japanese would have surrendered without the atomic bomb being used, she answered immedietly. I don't know and I don't care. I think they should have dropped a hundred more on Japan. This is a third party story and how much of it is true, I do not know. But the Japanese behavior at Nanking was truly outrages and shameful. I think they should have dropped the bomb if not to end the war quickly, then to save maybe a million men in a conventional assault.