Reply #127: Indeed. It wasn't a war we wanted, but one we had to fight.

[TexasObserver]

Anyone who actually understands the history of the world at war in the first half of the 20th century knows without question that the use of the nuclear bombs to end WWII ushered in an era that has for 64 years avoided the kind of slaughter we saw in WWI, the Holocaust, and WWII (with the exception of the Khymer Rouge massacres of the 1970s).

Fear of nuclear weapons has saved millions upon millions of lives that would have been lost in a world controlled only by conventional arms. It's an ugly truth, but it's the truth.