re: On this day in 1945, the city of Nagasaki is wiped off the face of the earth...

After seeing Oppenheimer over the weekend, I've come to the conclusion that the reasoning behind building the bomb was sound, beat the Nazi's. Once the bomb was tested, that should have been it. Nazi's were gone, Japan wasn't building one. No possible reason exists to use that much force and unleash what we did on the world.

We've invaded countless times after Japan without stopping to say, "if we use the bomb, we can stop this with less casualties." That's because we've used it already and the shite storm from it will never cease. It boils down to Truman just trying to swing his dick around like a big boy, just like they wanted him to when they railroaded Henry Wallace. They got perpetual war, at the cost of unlocking the deadliest weapon known to man.

We should have bit the bullet, invaded, waited for the Russians to invade, and got the full scale surrender that was coming anyway. Would the Russians have ever gotten the bomb made if we shuttered it after Trinity? Who knows. I don't think they got enough from Fuchs to go full scale. The continued production and testing caused more leaks. Cap it after Trinity, all signs point to...we keep this from ever seeing the light of day in a war time scenario. As it should have been.