that would spare Americans hundreds of thousands of causalities in an
invasion of Japan, and-not incidentally-save several times more than
that among Japanese soldiers and civilians. The thousands who have
died in the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were far less
than would have died in an allied invasion, and their sudden deaths
convinced the Japanese military to surrender.
Every nation has an interest in being at peace with other
nations, but there has never been a time when the world was free of
the scourge of war. Hence, peaceful nations must always have adequate
military force at their disposal in order to deter or defeat the
aggressive designs of rogue nations. The United States was therefore
right in using whatever means were necessary to defeat the Japanese
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