IMO, I think the quote Troutman had is right on. Dropping the bomb at that time, when it was rather small, and not as powerful as the ones we have now may have saved not on the the millions of lives then, but millions of lives into the future.
Because of what happened at Nagasaki and Hiroshima, most of us, including our leaders are horrified by the thought of dropping a nuclear bomb on a country like Iraq/Iran/NK.
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