Was America Evil to Drop Atomic Bombs on Japan?

The Intellectual Takeout ^ | May 1, 2024 | Kurt Mahlburg

[Mears]

I never heard that either .

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[GrandJediMasterYoda]

It was necessary to drop the bombs but it had many consequences besides the mass casualties....

[volare737]

It’s a shame we didn’t have them and drop them three years earlier. Think of the lives that coild have been saved.

[TigerClaws]

Thank you for your post. Well stated.

Also, sent me down a research path to find this:

https://www.idsa.in/cbwmagazine/yersinia-pestis-biological-warfare-and-bioterrorism#:~:text=The%20Japanese%20decided%20to%20concentrate,bubonic%20plague%20in%20population%20centers.

Details the bio weapons the Japanese had developed after human POW testing.

[John S Mosby]

On the UK, first. But the nazis also had developed a TransAtlantic bomber to hit the East Coast of the US.

So- yeah they would have used it. No doubt. Just as Iran will if they are allowed.

[ansel12]

Tucker Carlson was writing back in 1994/1995 when the Smithsonian had its Enola Gay controversy that set off the the vets and our organizations and conservatives, I wonder what his opinion was back then?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night.

It they had gotten it going it possibly could have wiped out half of the world's population. Asia and Europe would have been hit the hardest.

Unlike with an Atomic Bomb there is no stopping germ warfare. No blast radius. It just keeps going.

[ansel12]

“”””The united states was broke and wouldn’t have been able to continue the war and would have been forced into negotiating peace terms. The japs had atomic bombs and had tested them off the Korean coast making it a necessity for us to use the bombs to end the war. “””””

Don’t be ridiculous.

[TigersEye]

No.

I might be biased though. There is a good chance my father would have been killed in 1945 which could have hampered my birth in 1955.

[Waverunner]

I spent some time in a small sized Japanese town on the Sea of Japan coast in the 90's.
There was a small park with some low stone walls, and I asked about it.
The low stone walls were all that was left of the local castle after the American battleships had shelled it.
We literally were sailing up and down the coast blasting and bpmbing factories and military targets.
Hello, they didn't understand they had lost when we could do that at will
I also saw black UPS truck sized vans driving around town with men on top waving Imperial Japanese flags... this was the nationalist party, my host told me.
They remember what happened, and it was war.

[dfwgator]

Thing is, now China is trying to do their own version of the “Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere”

[GOPJ]

In advance of the land invasion of Japan, the War Department placed an order for 500,000 Purple Hearts. That supply has yet to be exhausted.

Interesting thread.

[jmacusa]

Nope. They saved my father-in-laws life so he could come home , marry my mother-in-law , have four daughters , one of whom is my wife.

So f all you whining revisionists and moral relativists.

[Mad Dawg]

That’s not the way to put the question.

The question is: Was it just?

[campaignPete R-CT]

“
they identified Kokura as the second target after Hiroshima. In Kokura, a city of 130,000 people on the island of Kyushu, the Japanese operated one of their biggest ordnance factories, manufacturing among other things chemical weapons.”

[jonascord]

My father was training with the 1st Marine Division for the landing, at the time, since he was out of the hospital after Okinawa. A discussion among the Marines was having to shoot a 10 year old, armed with a bamboo spear, known as an idiot stick. Recall, the Marines were averaged age 19.

A standing joke was that this was going to be a short fight. The 1st MarDiv wasn't on the list of available maneuver elements after L Day+10, having been functionally wiped out.

Since the country was bleeding million$ per day, and 2 million young men were gone on duty, you're saying "They should just wait." Months, years?

[catnipman]

pretty much at least once a week now, tucker carlson demonstrates that he’s little more than the latest nutter ... pretty soon i expect him to wash his face in a bowl of Cheetos ...

[Rinnwald]

Don’t be ridiculous.

Welcome to history once AI takes over.

[Mears]

Yep ……see my post 26 .

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[DesertRhino]

Tucker is doing great on most things. But he has blown it three times recently. The flying saucer thing, calling it evil to nuke Japan, and with Putin when Tucker got that goofy “confused” look and acted mystified that Putin said Nazism must cease in Ukraine. And Tucker said there hasn’t been any of that since 1945 and Germany’s defeat.

He is so very good sometimes. But other times he is rock-hard stupid here and there. I still like him, but you have to take the good with the bad I guess.