That’s about as facile as the Pollyanna view that America nuked Japan reluctantly and purely out of necessity. The reality is that it was a complicated decisio

That’s about as facile as the Pollyanna view that America nuked Japan reluctantly and purely out of necessity. The reality is that it was a complicated decision and there were many factors that went into it and many subsequent interpretations of the history on all sides. This Twitter thread provides an interesting overview of some of the historiography: https://twitter.com/wc_quinn/status/1458891500344029189 https://twitter.com/wc_quinn/status/1458891500344029189