And I just don't mean the military advantages like eliminating the need for a mainland invasion which would have resulted in the deaths of far more Japanese then the combined totals for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
And I just don't mean the political advantages like keeping Stalin from invading Northern Japan which would have resulted in a communist partition of Japan as was seen later in Korea and Vietnam.
What about THIS GUY?
If not for the BOMB we'd have never gotten Godzilla movies or the numerous cheesy sequals that we all loved as kids. Surely those films alone are worth say .... Nagasaki.
Not to mention all the other "radio active" inspired sci fi films like "The Incredible Shrinking Man" or any of the Giant This or That films.
And what about radiation cancer treatment. Had we not dropped those bombs I doubt we would ever figure out that if you are lucky you can kill the cancer and still live. I'm sure this little discovery has saved 100 times the number of folks killed at Hiroshima at least.
And how about Radioactive Carbon dating? Hows that for a contribution to human history and discovery? Finally we know how old stuff is beyond "Wow that looks really old to me."
And excuse me ummmmm NUCLEAR POWER. Too bad the hippies fucked this one up for us and regulated it into uselessness forcing us to rely on fossil fuels which they now bitch about us drilling for....sorry different rant. But if we actually relied on it nuclear could run our country for pennies on the dolllar for what we are currently paying.
All these things are the result of us dropping two bombs on a country that went out of their way to start a war with us. And besides paying them back for things like the Bataan Death March we got a lot of other tangible benefits from bombing them includings many they enjoy.
So on the anniversary of those dates can we just remind them of all of the above and tell them to shut the fuck up.
That is unless they have another decent Godzilla film. God I love those.