Part VI - Why the weapons were used... revisionist speculation...

"Better an end with terror than a terror without end." (German proverb)

             Revisionist historians so often speak to how decimated Japanese war industries were; and, how by August 1945 Japan’s ability to wage war was waning to the point of becoming defenseless. Further, their argument goes that it was not necessary to wipe those cities from the face of the Earth because the war was substantially already over. However, this argument does not hold water as just six weeks before the dropping of the A-bombs, over 12,000 American boys had been killed or were missing in action on a spit of ground in the Pacific called Okinawa.

            Revisionist somehow fail to recall that just 6 weeks before we destroyed two modern Japanese cities with two Atomic bombs, that the battle for Okinawa proved to be the bloodiest battle of the entire Pacific War. Thirty-four allied ships and craft of all types had been sunk, mostly by Kamikazes, and 368 ships and craft damaged. The fleet had also lost 763 aircraft.

            Total American casualties in the operation numbered over 12,000 killed and 36,000 wounded. America, from the start of the battle in March through the end of the fight in June, averaged loosing 440 boys being wounded and 153 boys killed in action, every day, for those 82 days. Over 600 American boys a day were being sacrificed at Okinawa. In fact, American losses at Okinawa were so heavy as to illicit Congressional calls for an investigation into the conduct of the US military commanders.
          It is worth noting that had those losses been suffered to a 'defeated' enemy today, the American people would mutiny against the government.

Why the weapons were used... revisionist speculation...