It's a lie that the A-Bomb saved lives. It cost the United States and Europe far more lives, that if the A-Bomb were not used. The use of the A-bomb galvanized and solidified China around Mao. Ho Chi Minh, Sukarno, Suharto, and endless list of guerrilla leaders on all continents had millions of new volunteer soldiers overnight. After the WWII, Asia, Africa, South America, Middle East, etc. rose up and totally wiped out and disintegrated European and U.S. imperial possesions. They finished the job Japan and Germany had started. The Soviet Union aspired to fill in the vacuum. Funny, it was Tojo who baited the guerrilla leaders and forsaw this, his rants repeated on and on, as he testified, justifying his actions at U.S. Tokyo war crimes trial.