Weapons are a deterrent

They are used only when political discourse is exhausted. Since the end of the Second World War, the USA has used them purely as a means of prevention being better than cure.

Although the engagement of the nuclear option on Japan will always be most polemical, we must not neglect the fact that the Japanese spirit had developed a resolute military mentality.

It is not an exaggeration to consider that the entire adult population, together with its youth, possessed a mode of thinking which was determined to prosecute the war because the nation’s honour demanded it. By their very act of fighting the Japanese people were fulfilling the ancient role of the Samurai, the medieval warrior whose fate was conquest or death. This resolve fired Japan’s fiendish aggression ad infinitum.

Therefore, America was compelled to engage a nuclear strategy in order to shorten a conflict that would have otherwise continued for years, and also to punish the “Banzic” bellicosity which murdered countless civilians in all the nations it invaded and was a clear and present danger to the freedom of the world.

Gerard A Groves Nevis Grove Bolton