Disinformation and the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

The two bombs 1) stopped the massive daily Japanese killing of mostly civilians in the

Pacific, Asian, and Chinese theaters; 2) ended the fire raids that had proven more deadly than Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 3) prevented a nightmarish invasion of Japan; and 4) in terrible irony, prompted an emerging doctrine of nuclear deterrence, which, as a result, may help explain why the world has neither seen another global war nor another use of nuclear weapons since 1945. Dropping the atomic bombs was terrible, but the alternatives were even worse.