Victor Davis Hanson: The Atomic Bombs Stopped a Far Bloodier War The planned invasion of Japan could have cost hundreds of thousands—or potentially a million—American casualties, following the staggering losses at Okinawa. Good men made a bad weapon to stop far worse men from killing innocents, and that's the... story of the atomic bombs of August. Full video: Victor Davis Hansonshow more

Victor is one of the oldest shekel whores in the hasbara business.

If Japan had developed the atomic bomb first and dropped it on Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles etc until the United States surrendered, would douchebags like this say, "well, at least it saved lives because Japan didn't have to invade American territory." ?

This is an old bullshit narrative.

Hard no. It was wrong. We need to learn from our mistakes. Nothing justifies the torturous and slow death we gave hundreds of thousands of innocent children, women and Japanese Catholic communities.

This is, of course, a lie. Japan agreed to surrender, with the condition that the emperor stay in power. Truman rejected this and hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the Japanese surrendered, unconditionally, the US allowed the Emperor to stay in power. There are far more lies in the official story, but this one, alone, destroys the narrative.

You contradict yourself. You make the case that innocents were saved. But I guess their innocents didnt matter.

Japan had already sued for peace BEFORE the nuclear weapons were deployed The narrative of a costly ground invasion as the only alternative is pure propaganda

The War was already over when the bombs were dropped -all the Generals knew this because they were already negotiating the surrender and dealing with the last sensitive issue of the Emperor. After Truman dropped the bombs, they invented the narrative you say above. Because.

No fucking way are nuclear bombs okay.

"The Fog of War" is a great documentary. Even though Robert McNamara is often regarded as one of the architects of the Vietnam war, he completely redeemed himself in his later years.

I hope this man has children. Cause I know damn well that the cascade of events that will follow the nuking of Iran will end his entire bloodline. Nuke Iran, Russia will nuke Ukraine to solve their own problems. And North Korea will suddenly get a bright idea.

dumb fuck old fart.

Stupid old fool.

He needs to be put in a psych ward

Actually, modern historians now agree it was the Russian invasion of Manchuria that REALLY did it.

Pure rubbish. It was to show US superior weapons to the USSR. "A 1946 U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey concluded that Japan would have surrendered before the end of the year anyway, even without the atomic bombs or a land invasion."

Japan was ready to make peace. But the US wanted more. They needed unconditional surrender, so they could occupy the country and infect it with liberalism. That's why they used the nukes.

American soldiers shouldn’t have been in Japan. American soldiers shouldn’t be anywhere but on American soil

Hanson doesn’t give a fuck about the younger generations which would have to deal with the literal and political fallout America would suffer should we make such a grave mistake.

Someone arrest this guy

Iran can survive a nuke and you be damn sure they will retaliate in same magnitude if not worse. Can israel survive a nuke?

President Eisenhower didn't agree.

Even 50 nukes would not defeat Iran. This guy is an imbecile, NOT an intellectual. Opening the door for every country on earth to use nukes willy nilly? Insanity.

Disgusting war crimes apologia, more disturbingly still is the fact that it’s being deployed to justify nuclear strikes against a non-nuclear country that didn’t start the war. If Trump is foolish enough to do this, Russia, China and others will change first strike policy

Japan started the war. What did Iran do to justify using a nuclear weapon on them. We started the war with Iran for another country. Instead of thinking about nuclear weapons against Iran, President Trump should realize that the best move for the American people would be for him to withdraw from the war in Iran walk away before more innocent people get murdered

Old man forgot to take his meds I guess.

How many innocent's and civilians were killed by the bombs? How many women and children? K thanks

I'm staggered by who still uses this narrative as an example. Total deaths from the bombings approximately 200k. 80-90% were civilians. You bombed cities and killed random people you sick fark.

Revisionist history. It’s well documented that there were only two reason we dropped the weapons on Japan, one to learn the effects on a “live target”, two, to send a message to Russia. U.S. firebombing alone had already destroyed 40% of urban centers and killed 400,000 Japanese.

Using complete bullshit about a Japanese land invasion to justify complete bullshit now is fucking vile. Fuck off you ghoul.

Around 200K civilians killed how much bloodier do you want?

So the bomber who kills millions are the good man now?

Before 🇺🇸holocausted against 300,000 civilians with the A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima Nagasaki, it attacked densely populated residential areas in Tokyo Osaka Nagoya Kobe Yokohama, holocausted over 1 million civilians with incendiary bombs. Holocaust=Burning alive to death.