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Tinkerbell:
Whether an invasion of Japan would have caused the vast number of casualties cited by defenders of the decision to drop the atomic bomb is now a wide-open historical issue, with much evidence on both sides of the question. That is why I did not include it as an established and certain reason why Truman and his advisors decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. Walker's book, already cited, analyzes both sides of the issue and leans against the old conventional wisdom; the great literary critic and historian Paul Fussell leans the other way in the lead essay in his book THANK GOD FOR THE ATOMIC BOMB: AND OTHER ESSAYS.
grundle:
You're doing it again ... and you're not worth answering.
Would you please learn how to make an argument? It's not done by scatter-shot one-sentence paragraphs juxtaposing unrelated facts and claiming that the mere juxtaposition proves cause-and-effect. Nor is it done by claiming things without citing evidence. Nor is it done by mere assertion and selective citation of facts, both of which habits of "arguing" leave you wide-open for precisely the blockbuster refutation that Nicky provided to your favorite case -- that of the unregulated hairbraider.
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