August 6, 1945

[PWC]

Harry Truman, once was asked about if his conscience bothered him, said he sleeps quite well at night, and further stated it was the right thing to do to save millions of lives Japanese and American. The buck stopped there.

[M1Tommy]

There were so many purple heart medals made in preparation for expected casualties from the invasion of Japan, they were still being issues into throughout the late 1990's!
An invasion of Japan would have, IMO, resulted in the near annihilation of their culture. I sincerely believe the Russians would have tried for even more of a land grab, also.
Tommy

[98src]

I have read somewhere that the fire bombing of Tokyo took more lives than both atomic bombs.

[m1ashooter]

It is wonderful that your uncle was able to survive the war and be the good citizen that he was. Now, I will get a little reaction here for this, but I have always had a problem with nuclear warfare. Yeah, I know it somehow saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

Its good you have an problem with nuclear warfare. I don't have a problem with the use of the weapons if it come down to having to use them but then again I'm one of the small percent of our population who once was responsible for launch a few of them.