Originally Posted by
ColoKent
I would respond respectfully to the gentleman who posted above, that "stigma" might not be an accurate term, as the definition of the word appears to be laced with judgmental overtones: "mark of shame or discredit". Most historians agree that our use of nuclear weapons in WW II was a wartime imperative whose alternative was a US invasion of the Japanese homeland in 1946 that would have cost as many as 1 million US and Japanese lives. In addition, it is hard to dispute the fact that deterrence worked from 1945 to 1991 to avoid a direct confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union.
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