Your Microsoft wants Nintendo

[A Black Falcon]

Dude! I totally said that during our WWII/Japan debate and you got mad at me!

Find the thread then. And anyway, as I said, it's a really hard question... it could have saved lives, it could not have. We'll never really know. But you are right that I didn't go into full depth there... I should have remembered to say that one of the prime reasons (heck, probably THE prime reason, given that it was Truman...) for using the Bomb was to stop the Russians from taking over any more Japanese territory. Not to save American lives, but to stop the Commies...