ENTIRELY agree with Frank L Jones concerning the atom bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, (You Say, July 8).
Approximately 200,000 people were killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sounds a lot, but if the British, Americans and Australians had been compelled to fight their way to Tokyo, the fanatical maniacs of the Imperial Army would have contested every yard of the way.
There would have been millions of allied deaths, possibly tens of millions.
Furthermore, other unfortunates who were prisoners of war in the indescribably foul Japanese camps were on the verge of death by August 1945 and could not have survived much longer.
Millions of Japanese would have died as well, in their fight to save Tokyo.
Therefore, the use of the atom bombs was morally justified at that time.
D E MARGRETT,
Worcester.
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