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Originally Posted by Flacker
I would recommend "The Fog of War", a documentary by Errol Morris, that presents 11 "life lessons" from Robert McNamara. Enlightening discussion of the need to drop the nukes, as he was a statistician with the USAF during WWII, and directly disagreed with LeMay's tactics. This is ironic as his statistical analysis, is actually what justified using the B-29s at a lower altitude, dropping incendiary bombs and torching Japan's cities.
Japan was in smoldering ruins before Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
McNamara also states that had the allies not won WWII, he would have fully expected that US officials would have been convicted of war crimes, for both the fire bombings, and Hiroshima/Nagasaki
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One of my all time favourite docs. Here is the clip where he mentions that:
I've always wondered why they didn't first drop a bomb on some uninhabited part of Japan as a demonstration/warning of their power and resolve.