RE: Words Matter

Your reading of history mirrors what I have read. The thing about the second bomb...there is a strong case for the argument that it may have hastened the end by a few days but that all those lives lost-- it is estimated that by the end of the year 64,000 people in Nagasaki had died from the bomb. Those casualties don't figure in long-term effects. I think in the case of Nagasaki it truly was atomic diplomacy and the ethics (morality?) of the Nagasaki detonation is highly
questionable.

You're right. WWII never ended. Neither did WWI. Neither did the U. S. Civil War. What does a war resolve? One side, the loser, retreats, but do the issues evaporate?