IMHO, every Japanese citizen, every day, should bow his head, clap his hands twice, and give thanks to his ancestors in Heaven for the Atom Bomb.

Without the Bomb, millions more of his people would have died needlessly. Without the Bomb, Russia's last-minute 'August Storm' invasion would have locked all of Korea and half of the Home Islands behind the Iron Curtain. Without the Bomb, Hokkaido would have become an oriental East Germany. Without the Bomb, Japan's post-war recovery and today's prosperity might never have happened.

Once invented, the Atom Bomb was a cataclysm waiting to happen. Sooner or later, someone would have to use it. If not 1945, when? If not in Japan, where? If not by the US...by whom?

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