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[QUOTE="WoodsRider, post: 165306, member: 16545"] Dropping the A-bomb and H-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were [B]NOT[/B] acts of terrorism. Truman made the decision for two reasons. One, as Dirtygirly pointed out, was to stop the slaughter of U.S. troops in the Pacific. The Japanese soldiers would've fought until the last one was dead. In fact almost 20 years after WWII Japanese soldiers, who were forgotten on a remote island in the pacific, were discovered and still believed they were at war. The only way to get them to surrender was to destroy their country and force their leadership into a peace agreement. The other reason was money. The cost of fighting a war on two fronts for almost four years and financially backing the allied nations for over two years before entering the war strained U.S. government finances. The government was nearly broke. The explosive power of the atomic weapons used on Japan in 1945 were tiny compared to that of nuclear arms the U.S. and [B]other[/B] countries have at their disposal today. It's sort of like comparing a firecracker to a stick of dynamite. These are weapons of mass destruction that do a lot more than just level cities. They can destroy the world... many times. The U.S. also has weapons that do not contain as much explosive energy, yet are just as effective. Using these weapons on key strategical targets could literally bring most countries to their knees. Keep in mind some of these "neat toys" (as Predator put it) are soldiers in the special forces that are literally trained to kill. They are not your typical grunt. Keep one thing in mind, don't expect U.S. retaliation [B]until[/B] we have identified and flushed out those terrorists that are currently on U.S. soil. This wasn't the work of just a few, but an entire network deeply entrenched in society and throughout the world. [/QUOTE]
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