Originally Posted by Iron Maiden

These anti A-Bombs idiots seem to forget the "Rape of Nanking", treatment of allied POWs, and the ordering of civilians to jump to their deaths in Saipan and Okinawa. All those are acceptable but not the a-bombs which saved lives on both sides? Lives were saved during the Cold War also, the bombs showed the real destructive power on a populated area and it made leaders a little more hesitant to unleash the bombs.