Quote Originally Posted by Marshal Murat
If Stalin was such a threat, soooo evil, then why didn't we nuke him to the stone age? He had nuclear weapons as well, but if he again was soooo evil, then I think we would have found a way to destroy Russia.
The reason we dropped two nukes on Japan was to scare the Russians. We tried to do everything we could to avoid a war with Russia. If a war did start, the result would not be pretty, with only two countries emerging from WWII with any sort of power, and both of them in serious economic trouble. There would be all kinds of alliances made again, as countries took sides (though the U.S. would probably have the easiest time with that). When we (America) did win (which I'm sure we would), we would have been no better of than any of those other ruined countries. It would have been a disaster. Not to mention that if we won the war, we could not start an all out conquest of Russia, as we would not have the resources, and the Russians, with their enormous population and in their impenitrable fortress of snowy waste land, that since the time of the Mongols has never been successfully invaded, would have been safe and soon recovered. Any chance of "good relations" with them would be over forever.

I am wondering though Murat: you say: "if he again was soooo evil". Do you find the killing of billions (tens of millions directly) evil? I do.