August 6, 1945.
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It was absolutely necessary. The Japanese were prepared to fight for many more years. The absolute and utter destruction of the first bomb on Hiroshima wasnt even enough in that we had to drop a second one on Nagasaki. This was when they finally decided that the fight would not be worth the consequences. Nothing else short of those two bombs would have caused them to give up.
I think the part of the question in bold is really where you go wrong. Looking back on it with contemporary eyes really doesn't mean anything. We can't look back and even try to give any sort of objective summation of events and our opinions of them without any sort of bias because we weren't there at the time making those decisions. Of course we can say now that dropping nuclear weapons on any target civilian or military (and both cities were military targets by the way) should never occur. But none of us are in a situation to try to make that decision that they had to make.
Now to give my personal opinion, even with what I've said above; I personally think that both attacks were necessary. It is a horrible thing to have to rationalise but it was for the greater good. Far more people would have died as a result if those bombs hadn't have been dropped than if they had.
The fire bombings of Tokyo or Dresden are far harder to rationalise and morally justify than that of the nuclear attacks in my opinion. To me, those are the real western "crimes" (if you wish to call them that) of the second world war.
One of the greatest ****** attacks of the time. Only surpassed by ****-Germany
vodkazvictim
Why save the world, when you can rule it?
It was not necessary to threaten the USSR in this way. It was not done for military reasons.
A bomb strikes are universally regarded as awful today because we saw just how ****** awful they are back then.
End of.
A bomb strikes are universally regarded as awful today because we saw just how ****** awful they are back then.
End of.
Ace Bandage
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What's a war crime is what the Japanese were doing to captured POWs.
True, but we did also send non-combatant Japanese that were living in the U.S. to camps and very little of them got their homes or businesses back
I have yet to hear a more compelling argument against the bomb than that! :tongue:
We have debated this before here.Right or wrong, needed or uneeded as long as japan had not surrendered the bomb was going to be used.We had spent a lot to develop it and also wanted to use it on a couple of real targets for our own knowledge as well as to demostrate to the whole world that we alone now were supreme when it came to war.Just another of the terrible happenings and legacys of World War 2.
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Oh who knows.
its like asking was it necessary for the Japanese to commit such disgusting human atrocities to so many chinese for so many years?
Entering village after un-armed village, ********* the men and the boys, sticking chinese babies on their bayonets, ****** the women and little girls then burning them alive, skinning civilians alive, using thousands for horrendous medical experiments, ect ect ect for 30 years?
Was it necessary for them to ******* and ****** prisoners in the most horrible ways imaginable?
The Japanese of that era were the most savage people since the vikings and the huns, but worse.
They also tried to get into Russia to commit more savagery, but the Russians fought them off, otherwise they would have ****** millions there too.
So you answer my question and I'll answer yours,.
Deal?
Ace Boobtoucher
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I think we need to drop another couple of bombs just to show we're through fucking around.
On yourselves please. Do the universe a favour. . .
Your right wing paranoia knows no bounds. It's not about liberal. I'm to the left if Che and I don't second guess the decision.
Shifty
O.G.
Which first year general college course was this taught in??
Don't forget what they did to the Chinese, Southeast Asians, and the Koreans as well. And Koreans are still looked down upon by the Japanese as well.
Maybe Ethics or Morality.
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