"Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped," concluded the United States Strategic Bombing Surveys. That was early as 1946.
It gets some people's backs up when Hiroshima and Nagasaki are compared to the Holocaust. But beyond any crude numbers game, there was more than a touch of Josef Mengele to those bombings.
No one knew what the effects of an atomic attack would be. So experiments were conducted on perceived racial inferiors, not to end the War, but just to see what would happen.
"If we'd lost the War, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals," admitted even Curtis LeMay. He was right.
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