[HelioPrime]

For those that don't know, Paul Tibbets was a former general of the air force was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the aircraft that dropped the "Little Boy" bomb on Hiroshima, killing 70,000-100,000 people outright during the second world war.

He recently passed, requesting oddly no funeral or gravemarker for fear of detractors. I find it odd a man who clearly served his county well is depicted as a willing villian of a corrupt war industry while others would go as far as calling him a mass murder.

So thoughts? Paul Tibbets said he spelt soundly with no regrets, should he have regrets? Should he be held accountable for murder or was the atomic bomb a neccesary weapon of war?

Estimates were that the US would lose 100,000 + lives in a land invasion of Japan. At the time there was little knowledge of any attempts inside Japan to end the war. So is the sacrifice of the lives of Japanese civilians acceptable in warfare?

If today we became engulfed in a similar large scale conflict, should be allow weapons of mass destruction to be used?



- my responce would be the bomb was a neccesary evil. We lacked knowledge of any attempt by the japanese to end the war. We prevented massive lose of american life. Many Japanese would have died regardless in a land invasion. The bomb saved more lives than were taken.

Today the situation should be the same. If more lives can be saved by use of mass weapons then a country in unrestricted war can and should use them.