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Originally Posted by Kitty  Its a very difficult situation. In Australia you were closer to Japan in the war and therefore suffered more than we did in Europe. Should the bomb have been dropped? With hindsight and knowing the ongoing effects of the radiation, then i want to say no. But knowing what would have been the alternative with a powerful and widespread bombing campaign, then yes it had to be dropped.
I am not sure the second bomb should have been dropped though. |
Had this same question been posed in 1945, after the end of the War in Europe but before the end of the war in the Far East, then I will stake whatever little reputation I have on what the answer would have been.
100% of whoever was polled would have answered "Drop the bomb...immediately !"
I, like so many others had experienced war at first hand.
My family, like so many others, had suffered the grievous loss of one of their sons.
We knew what a continued war with Japan would entail.
The bomb, at the time, was a complete and over-welcome Godsend.
We never had the luxury of hindsight...we were living the day itself.
And that is how I see it.
Ron