This is actually a topic in today’s world? Shall we include the bombing of Tokyo, and Dresden and numerous other German cities? American Stinker has gone downhill.
Too late!
It was them or us. I pick them.
Yes.
Next question.
Easily justified. My father was on an escort carrier off the coast of Japan when the war ended. Those were a prime target for kamikazes.
The Truman administration was so racist! /S
AFTER the Hiroshima bomb - the Japanese Ruling Council voted to continue fighting.
After the Nagasaki bomb - the Japanese Ruling Council voted and was deadlocked. So, they decided to continue fighting and inquire through Russia about a negotiated peace.
After Russia attacked Japan in the East, the Emperor stood up and called for a surrender.
I am pretty sure the Japansese were warned several times to surrender or face the consequences. They knew they were beaten but no one wanted to tell their Supreme Being the Emperor so. Their own pride did them in.
Truman and the others involved seemed to have no qualms about using the bombs. If Japan or any of the other participants in WWII had had them they would have used them too. This hand wringing has been going on my whole life mostly by the left to cast doubt on the US victory. Nothing new from the left as usual.
My dad was an Army engineer in WWII, making sure the nickel mine in New Caledonia kept up production, in spite of the Vichy-leaning French governor there.
They were given orders to prepare equipment and personnel for the invasion of Japan. My mother-in-law, who is Japanese, was being trained at the same time how to use a bamboo spear to kill American invaders.
Truman made the right decision. Although a demonstration blast within view of the Imperial Palace might have worked just as well, the chosen strategy worked very quickly, ensuring the safety of both my father and my future MIL.
During the last months of the war, Ishii was preparing for a long-distance attack on the United States with biological weapons. This operation, codenamed “Cherry Blossoms at Night”, called for the use of airplanes to spread plague in San Diego at night.
yeah.. i’d say it’s a good thing we ended it, since they were about to start attacking our mainland with bio weapons they had been working on in Unit 731.
And if you don’t know what Japanese Unit 731 is... yeah.. might want to look it up since all war crimes the Japs did are not taught in US schools.
Nagasaki, maybe not so much. Some more well-read than myself will weigh in about the Japanese attempting to surrender in the twain, with the stipulation that they would keep their emperor, a condition that the allies did in fact acquiesce to with the correct rationale that the emperor would be helpful in occupation and reconstruction.
Also a secondary consideration for Nagasaki may have been for the benefit of other would-be superpowers who would have been paying attention: "Oh yes, we do have more of these if we should need them anytime soon." Of course they, particularly the USSR, would have known this anyway.
Fully justified !!!
Most probably saved my father’s life. He would have been in the invasion force.
It’s war. Don’t like war? Don’t engage in one.
I can’t believe we’re debating this crapola again. For the last time, it was completely justified. End of story. Anyone who thinks differently is an idiot. Yes, I am being rather blunt, but that’s exactly what I think.
Frankly, the Japs got what they deserved for their utterly brutal treatment of prisoners and occupied citizens. The A-bomb was totally justified as an act of punishment alone. Call me a heretic.
Justified. A nuclear weapon is just another weapon, not the boogieman. If you’re going to fight a war, you fight to win and you fight to end it as soon as reasonably possible.
Every one of these asshole who speak out against that bombing were not there in the Pacific fighting.
I had two uncles there. Both of them said it was the best thing to happen and, BTW, they forget that the USA did not start that war. We wanted to stay the hell out of it.
We are still fighting that war. Dam Germans are living on the security off our backs and we get to police the world.
Yet the good thing to come out of it is that the most bitter of enemies have become the best of friends-Japan.
Was the Japanese Empire’s goal of world conquest justified?