I always found the most interesting part of those two nuclear bombings the fact that we experimented with uranium on Hiroshima and plutonium on Nagasaki. They were two differently fueled atom bombs (”Little Boy and “Fat Man”). One result I remember reading about in the ‘70s was that surviving citizens of Hiroshima had a far higher incidence of leukemia than the survivors in Nagasaki.
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We probably never would have had to drop the bomb on Japan, if FDR hadn’t been manipulated by Stalin. The USSR was never made to declare war on Japan, and they never did until the day before we dropped the 2nd bomb.
I dissent
the alternative was “no mainland invasion”
The U.S. has had a completely different approach to warfare since 1950 because we wage military campaigns for completely different reasons now. We are now an empire in every sense of the term, and it makes no sense to destroy cities and civilizations when our primary goal is to occupy them and do business with them. In our current position, destroying an "enemy" is a pointless exercise.
The U.S. government had no problem dropping atomic bombs on Japan because as a nation we weren't terribly interested in the Japanese mainland. Our primary interest in the Pacific was the possession and control of Japan's colonies and their resources.
He would have been at the forefront of an invasion of Japan, so I'm glad the Atomic Bombs were used.
But the moral problem of incinerating women and babies in tens or hundreds of thousands remains as a real, serious issue, and I actually think that our failure to accept the rightness of that explains a lot about why we are having such trouble winning wars now.
War is obliterating the enemy. Japan’s right to even exist ceased to exist when they waged war. Two atomic bombs? Hell, we had the right to use them even up to today, to continue to destroy Japan as we saw fit. The fact that we used only two and quit should make them still thank us for our mercy.
If you don’t like war, and the fact that it means your total obliteration, then don’t wage war.