Posted on 05/04/2024 7:00:50 PM PDT by DoodleBob
I like listening to broadcasts from that era, in particular the ones right after VJ Day. The crowds celebrating in the streets will tell you everything you need to know as to whether or not it was the right thing to do.
The atomic bombs probably saved over one million Japanese lives. Curtis Lemay had thousands and thousands of heavy and medium bombers sitting idle in Europe and he had every intention of putting them to use on Japan.
Additionally, the US warned the Japanese about its intended use of the bombs. We wanted to spare innocent lives and there’s only so much you can do to accomplish that. We couldn’t force them to do it.
Warning Leaflets
https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/warning-leaflets/
The people had time to evacuate.
They thought the Emperor was GOD. Every man, woman and CHILD would have fought with tire irons and kitchen knives if we had tried to invade. IT WAS WAR.
To be clear, it isn’t the question that is the story.
The story is that the question came up again, in the news, because Tucker Carlson said it was “evil.”
“My ‘side’ has spent the last 80 years defending the dropping of nuclear bombs on civilians… like, are you joking? If you find yourself arguing that it’s a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil.”
Tucker is on his way to going Full Glenn Beck. Never go Full Glenn Beck.
Hirohito wore a military uniform—He was the commandder in chief of all the arrmed forces of Japan— a deserving abom military target.. Allies screwed up...
Was Japanese leadership evil for Pearl Harbor? For the Nanjing massacre? Were they thinking about what retaliation might mean for their own citizens?
I’m glad we let Hirohito stay on after the war.
We should have done the same with The Kaiser in Germany, it sure wound up beating the alternative.
Do you want the US to use it?
plus many of those houses were micro factories makin small parts for airplanes, submarines etc.. Both cities were legitimate military industrial targets.
Questions that never come up when discussing the *morality* of dropping the bombs.
Fatboy would have been bomb number three.
No we were not. However Japan was evil to murder or work to death 40 million or so civilians and non combatants in their little experiment in colonialism, and of course, anyone who died defeating Japan in WWII.
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The decision was easy. Hundred of thousands of US military casualties, possibly millions of Japanese military and civilian deaths and the war stretching out months or years vs 200,000 Japanese and zero American deaths and it ends now.
In Sept. I will be….if I make it .
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No.
Would the people of those cities be less dead if they had been bombed and shot?
Was Japan evil to kill 24 million Chinese—many with germ bombs?
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