I didn't mean to refight World War II yet again. I think it is interesting that, for instance, people like Eisenhower and Nimitz were dubious about the need to drop the bomb(s).   Not that anyone's hands were clean before that, apart from the misery the Japanese were inflicting, the firebombing of Japan's cities was pretty hairy.   It seems to me that, given the success of the blockade (cf. the Strategic Bombing Survey) that Japan would have surrendered without an invasion by December, but only because massive numbers of the population would have starved to death.   Not that that would have been great either!!!



yours,

Peter T.