To bomb or not to bomb

Historians forever debate the morality of dropping the bomb on Japan. Here’s Japanese perspective. It might surprise you:

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“We of the peace party were assisted by the atomic bomb in our endeavor to end the war,” Kido Koichi, one of Emperor Hirohito's closest aides, later recalled. Hisatsune Sakomizu, the chief cabinet secretary, called the bomb “a golden opportunity given by heaven for Japan to end the war.”

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/jj20050808.shtml

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