We invented napalm. Specifically as a terrorizing tool to be used on the Japanese. Tokyo was a wood tinderbox, and we designed a weapon that would decimate that and inflict maximum human casualty while doing it. People would survive it; that was the point. That they would live in terror for the rest of their days of ever seeing something like that happen in front of them ever again.
We used it. They did not surrender.
This implied the necessity of an even more terrifying weapon. We used that. They did not immediately surrender, so we used it a second time. And only then, finally, did they admit they could not go on.
This is a dead simple analysis. I don't need 3000 words to explain it. It is what happened.
The fact that napalm was invented shows that the nukes were necessary.
We invented napalm. Specifically as a terrorizing tool to be used on the Japanese. Tokyo was a wood tinderbox, and we designed a weapon that would decimate that and inflict maximum human casualty while doing it. People would survive it; that was the point. That they would live in terror for the rest of their days of ever seeing something like that happen in front of them ever again.
We used it. They did not surrender.
This implied the necessity of an even more terrifying weapon. We used that. They did not immediately surrender, so we used it a second time. And only then, finally, did they admit they could not go on.
This is a dead simple analysis. I don't need 3000 words to explain it. It is what happened.
The fact that napalm was invented proves that the nukes were necessary.
We invented napalm. Specifically as a terrorizing tool to be used on the Japanese. Tokyo was a wood tinderbox, and we designed a weapon that would decimate that and inflict maximum human casualty while doing it. People would survive it; that was the point. That they would live in terror for the rest of their days of ever seeing something like that happen in front of them ever again.
We used it. They did not surrender.
This implied the necessity of an even more terrifying weapon. We used that. They did not immediately surrender, so we used it a second time. And only then, finally, did they admit they could not go on.
This is a dead simple analysis. I don't need 3000 words to explain it. It is what happened.