I think it was in the book "Flags of our Fathers" where it was told about Japs keeping a prisoner barely alive so they could eat him bit by bit...slicing off a non vital piece now and then, saving the best for last....remember the "Rape of Nanking" where as many as 100,000 Chinese women, aged 7 to 70 were raped by Jap troops in a matter of a few weeks....
So imagine, if by some chance, they had landed on the West coast....this was a mindset from a culture that maybe only the use of nuclear weapons could sway?
