Do you think the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima could ever be justified? I think not. It was one of the worst crimes against humanity in living history, in my opinion.
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Caitlin
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So you would have preferred to see up to 1 million Allied troops and countless Japanese citizens die in an invasion of Japan? That is the estimate of historians. Sometimes there are difficult choices to make. This is an example, when one looks at the ENTIRE picture.
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Without the shock value of that bomb, Japan would have fought to the last grandmother. You would prefer mass genocide? Nice!
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Fewer people were killed than if it hadn't been dropped - that seems to be justification. Crimes against humanity can only be judged by the effect they have on the gene pool (which belongs to all humanity), on that basis the Roman Catholic church is the biggest criminal in that it encourages the dilution of the pool by encouraging mentally deficient (i.e. christian) couples to breed to excess (or at all).
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Approximatly 250,000 lost their lives to the bombs dropped on Japan.After the bombing of Hiroshima,the U.S. sent a request for surrender to the Imperial goevernment.Even after having been warned that another bomb could be used,the request was refused.The bombing of Nagasaki was a decision made by the Japanese,not the U.S.As others have stated above,would you rather have seen the complete and udder destruction of Japan,or was the death of some not good for the whole?
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Yes, absolutely. That's your opinion, of which I disagree. Nasty? yes. But the Japanese attacked us first. Don't like the answer? Don't ask the question. (The Japanese Intended to Fight American fears about casualty levels were sent soaring in July by intercepts of Japanese military cables. The new intelligence revealed a massive build-up of Japanese forces in southern Kyushu. Historian Edward Drea describes the situation: "It was as if the very invasion beaches were magnets, drawing the Japanese forces to those places where the Americans would have to land and fight their way ashore. It was also very clear in those messages that the Japanese intended to fight to the bitter end.") http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pacific/peopleevents/e_olympic.html
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We discovered after the war that Germany had transferred their technology to Japan. The Japanese were close to having an atomic weapon and had intended to unleash a dirty bomb on the continental U.S. The Japanese had also been developing chemical and biological weapons and would not have hesitated to use them. In fact if I recall correctly, they did in China. Besides the war throughout the pacific theatre and Southeast Asia the Japanese committed atrocity after atrocity. Never having signed the Geneva Convention Japan's military forces were nothing less than a bloodthirsty occupational force. They were brutal, sadistic and totally heartless, there was little limit to their cruelty. They were the perfect match with Nazi Germany and certainly deserved to be wiped from the face of the earth. I only wish that Roosevelt had listened to Einstein sooner and the war could have ended sooner.
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Yeah we'd been better off just to what drop thousands and thousands of regular bombs on all the Japaneses cities or just bomb 2 I think we did the right thing. Also they were taking balloons and trying to poison us with Nuclear Material and they were not innocent of crimes against Humanity.
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