Hiroshima marks 79 years since atomic bombing as nuclear war fears rise

[MrAnderson]

11 hours ago, Grim Reaper 6 said:

Well, I love armchair quarterbacks like you. You all have never had to make decisions concerning the lives of others so you’re not capable of understanding what it takes to do. Carry on, but save your indignation for others like yourself because then at least you will find someone who agrees with you and sympathizes with your point of view!

Good Luck!

I don't know whether you consider this a serious argument after all options I have discussed which would have avoided the killings of hundreds of thousands of people on all sides.

Diplomacy could have achieved miracles and the use of the bomb in one of the uninhabited islands. The Japanese officials would have been convinced about the devastating effects of the new weapon.

The US could have bombed strategies areas with conventional bombs and perhaps some cities in the worst case scenario.

But some days forces wanted to experiment and it's not a coincidence there were two bombs one posted by uranium and one powered by plutonium.

My stance is that we shouldn't use weapons of mass destruction against each other even if we decide to go to war and kill each other.

The fact that Japan has committed war crimes doesn't make US any less guilty of the war crimes the military industrial complex has committed against Japanese civilians using the most devastating weapon they could use.

[Alchopwn]

23 hours ago, MrAnderson said:

Regardless of what some official memoranda says (which I don't doubt they exist) the devastation from the two bombs was what made Japan to surrender. I think it was more than enough to show Japan the other side had the most devastating weapon ever existed and could be used again and again if needed.

I think there has been substantial historical revision of the choices of Japan's Wartime Cabinet, and the fear the Japanese had that Stalin would humiliate and execute Hirohito was foremost in their thoughts, and so they surrendered to the Western allies instead.  Most people are unaware that Japanese Imperial forces continued to fight the USSR for weeks after Japan unconditionally surrendered to the Western Allies.