Luckiest Man Alive

[Julnar]

Remind me to ask this man to choose my lottery numbers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/ 7963581.stm

[KingChain]

Yeah but he was probably hundreds of miles from the blast,had he survived a nuke dropped on his house and the second one on his car while he was in it,then i would personally fly to him to buy him a pint and shake his glowing hand.

[keyplus90]

I liked what Steve said, I have asked this question myself few times. We ask Japanese to apologise almost every year for what they did in ww2. Has anyone ever asked USA to apologise for using red button. No, apparently that saved lot of more damage as it finished war early. Had Japanese used (if they had) nukes to finish the war early, I wonder if people would have said the same thing.

[dabees]

History is written by the winners Keyplus, the truth is a shallow second.

[R1Geezer]

It is estimated that the dropping of the 2 bombs saved 2million lives, 1.5million of them Japanse so on a purely statistical basis the US needs a pat on the back. However I know paradoxical thinking isn't big in the eyes of your standard anti Western lefty or raving terrorist sympathisers.

[123everton]

Dropping the bomb on Japan was not an atrocity.
It's easy with the benefit of history to be profligate with other peoples lives from the comfort zone of history.
Japan was still fighting hard before the bomb, we saved thousands of our own troops lives (the number 1 priority in war), thousands of their own troops lives (number 3 proirity in war) and thousands of of their civilians lives (Number 2 priority in war) from mass suicide and pointless resistance and mass murder by their own troops.

[R1Geezer]

Steve.5 you are surely being obtuse, I cannot believe that you are not aware of the attitude of Japan at the time. The US would have had to fight for every inch. The Japanese where being told via propaganda to fight with kitchen spoons if necessary, have you not seen the Japanese propaganda films? If memory serves you lecture in history, you of all people must know that taking the actual bombing in isolation is of limited use as an indicator. The context is all important.