Dunno if anyone has said this in pages 2 and 3, but...
a) If Hiroshima was such an important base why did it not get bombed at all when most other cities were firebombed?
b) There is plenty of evidence (and was known at the time) that the Japanese were talking about surrendering. There would have not been a need for a full-scale invasion... only an insane faction of the Japanese government wanted to fight on - still trying to get over the poster (non-gravity) that said it was fine because Japanese had killed and bombed themselves - in that case 9/11 was fine... which of course it wasn't.
c) Revisionist histories focus on the need to keep the Soviets out (and to demonstrate US power to those same awkward 'reds')
It's a bit of an orthodoxy to say it saved lives...
I'll check out the rest of the pages now.
Yes.
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