Classic City Rev

I am writing these words on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.  This was the first use of nuclear weapons as an instrument of war.  An American bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped it's ordinance on the city.  Three days later the Japanese city of Nagasaki was also bombed with an atomic weapon.  The bombing of Hiroshima killed an estimated 66,000 people and another 39,000 were killed in Nagasaki. This of course does not take into account those who in subsequent years may have died prematurely due to the lingering effects of the radiation that resulted in increased rates of cancer and other disorders. Conventional wisdom has taught over the years that the bombings, as tragic as they were, may have saved lives.  An invasion of the Japanese homeland by America and her allies would have resulted in casualties far greater than the the casualties of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  It is indisputable that