Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed because no one knew what this bombs really were.
Even Hitler didn't use poison gases full-scale at the front line.
MAD is a brilliant solution.
Hmm maybe you're right: Russian military doctrine supposes using nukes against anyone who invades Russia or it's allies. We can't afford conventional forces like USSR, that spent over 60% of it's GNP on defense.
Oppenheimer and the rest of the Trinity team damn well knew what they'd do. They lobbied to have the bomb "demonstrated" on an un-inhabited pacific island, to demonstrate it to the Japanese. In the end, even with all of the people that did get killed, the conventional invasion would have killed many times more-and a high percentage of those would have been americans.
Hitler himself may have been influenced by the injuries he had received on the Western front as a(n) corporal during WW I. However, he didn't seem to have any qualms' about the usage of Xyclon-B in the gas chambers. And...
...MAD only works' when sane people are in charge. It seems' like there's quite a few batshit-crazy SOB's in power in the nations' of the world today.