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Originally Posted by Porn Farmer
So who do you think I am going to believe - you or General Dwight D. Eisenhower?  |
I am not the one that stated that it wouldn't have ended the war. Truman, his cabinet, and the military determined that. There is a lot of debate on both sides, and there probably never will be a good answer. But the facts were that hundreds of thousands of civilians were dying each month, and those bombs helped put an end to that.
It is one of the darkest days in human civilization. But there is strong contention by historians that it ultimately saved many lives.