The Bomb at 80 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Bomb at 80 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The debate over whether the United States ought to have used the bomb against Japan is complicated and vexing. Did the United States have to drop atomic bombs on Japan to win the war? Should the United States have done so, even if military necessity dictated? I. The Pacific War German surrender on May 8, 1945 enabled the Americans at last to turn their undivided attention to war in the Pacific theater. By 1943 the pace of the Pacific war had slo…