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The bombing of Hiroshima: Everything you need to know about the atomic bomb that ended World War II
Fox News ^ | August 6, 2023 | Ashlyn Messier

Posted on 08/06/2023 10:17:26 AM PDT by McGruff

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, 1945, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The bombings resulted in thousands of causalities in Japan.

The decision to drop the bombs on the cities is controversial, even today, due to how many lives were lost. Thousands of people died from the atomic bomb, but the action also ended World War II.

Here is everything you need to know about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb.

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: clickbait; godsgravesglyphs; hiroshima; japan; nagasaki; worldwareleven
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To: Shady

“It saved my Pop’s life.”

Same with many of us.

My father was a Navy Corpsman with the Marines on Okinawa.

Had nightmares most of his life about the Japanese. The nukes certainly spared his life. He once said he did not expect to survive the invasion of Jaoan after surviving Okninawa.


61 posted on 08/06/2023 12:10:42 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I’ve always heard that these cities in Japan were military targets, that there were military factories and bases in these places.

There may or may not have been military targets in these cities; if, for the sake of discussion we assume that there were, we are still bound by the rules of proportionality. (We can't burn Tokyo to the ground because somewhere inside Tokyo there is a factory that makes Mitsubishi Zeros.)

But the plan to target the population centers was in place before the B-29s even began their raids. At the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, the US Army constructed a German and Japanese village in order to determine what incendiary bombs would be most effective in burning down a house. (This was in 1942.)

https://apjjf.org/2018/08/Plung.html

62 posted on 08/06/2023 12:20:42 PM PDT by Captain Walker (Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.-Pascal)
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To: Captain Walker; Dilbert San Diego

The year was 1943 (and not 1942); my bad.


63 posted on 08/06/2023 12:23:22 PM PDT by Captain Walker (Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.-Pascal)
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To: FreedomPoster

Amen.


64 posted on 08/06/2023 12:24:13 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: stylin19a
I've got pictures of my grandfather on Okinawa, Christmas of 1945.




If we didn't drop the bombs, I probably wouldn't be here. He was a Navy Seabee during WWII. My mom was born Dec 7 of 1946.
65 posted on 08/06/2023 12:24:52 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: ro_dreaming
thanx for that

If we didn't drop the bombs, I probably wouldn't be here

copy that.
66 posted on 08/06/2023 12:26:18 PM PDT by stylin19a (Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe. -- Lee Trevino)
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To: LS

*Through Okinawa, the number of Japanese troops who surrendered, despite obvious evidence their units were destroyed and they had no hope of winning, was almost ZERO. On Iwo Jima, fewer than 2,000 prisoners (almost all wounded) were taken out of a garrison of 20,000. There was no evidence, anywhere, that the Japanese civilians on Hokkaido or any other island would actually surrender.

Part of that was because of the Japanese treatment of POW’s. They figured that we treat POW’s the same way, and did NOT want that “embarrassment”, or “shame”.

Not saying we didn’t, but we didn’t as de rigeur, for them, it was a Tuesday.


67 posted on 08/06/2023 12:28:35 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: McGruff

A couple of points that one rarely hears:
1.) The arguments one hears about Japan having already lost are specious. While their loss was inevitable, they wouldn’t quit as evidenced by the island fighting throughout the Pacific. Hirohito could have called it at any time before Hiroshima and the war council would have done so. The fact that he didn’t until six days AFTER THE SECOND BOMB is telling. He died peacefully in his sleep 44 years later while Hitler and Mussolini died in their own rubble, as it were. Stalin SHOULD have died in WWII since he was pivotal in getting the dance started.
2.) The use of the two bombs, as horrible as they were, in all likelihood prevented the use of much more powerful weapons in the years since.


68 posted on 08/06/2023 12:30:20 PM PDT by Smber (The smallest minority is the individual. Get the government off my back.)
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To: ro_dreaming

The civilians on Okinawa were also told that we would rape the women, kill and eat the children, etc. Lots of civilians killed themselves rather than getting captured.

I recall some Japanese person (a child at the time?) talking about it, and how surprised they were when the GI’s came through afterwards and bringing food and medical help instead.


69 posted on 08/06/2023 12:45:44 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: blueunicorn6
If China had any morals they'd put up statues of Fat Man and Little Boy and talk about how great it was that the U.S. stopped Japan's mass slaughtering of the Chinese.

If not for us, China would still be Japan's comfort woman.

70 posted on 08/06/2023 12:53:28 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Wasn’t Hiroshima selected as the primary target because it was the center of Japan’s atomic bomb program????


71 posted on 08/06/2023 12:59:09 PM PDT by elpadre
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To: sit-rep
After the Rape of Nanjing, no one should care one fkng bit about Japanese civilians ...

And how they treated the areas they conquered. Talk about racial superiority.

72 posted on 08/06/2023 1:11:26 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: sit-rep

I wonder where the three hour blockbuster Christopher Nolan movie about Nanking is? It would be difficult to watch such butchery for a few minutes, let alone hours.

I had my kids read that book during the summer of their JR year in high school. It made their teacher’s a little uneasy the next fall when WWII was covered for three days in history class.


73 posted on 08/06/2023 1:12:09 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: silverleaf

To quote Archie Bunker, “Would you have felt better if they was pushed out of windows?”


74 posted on 08/06/2023 1:14:07 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Vermont Lt

> It made their teacher’s a little uneasy the next fall when WWII was covered for three days in history class.

Good, nicely done dad.


75 posted on 08/06/2023 1:24:05 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: USS Alaska

We did not bomb Tokyo during the night in a sneak attack, I think it was the japs that bombed Pearl Harbor, but that was a long time ago, maybe I’m wrong.

To be fair, it wasn’t “during the night”.

It was around 7 AM.

Now, they LAUNCHED the attack in the night, yes, but the bombs and strafing was during the wake-up morning time. (or for the military folks, about lunchtime, lol)


76 posted on 08/06/2023 1:33:36 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: FreedomPoster

My MIL lived with us. Her husband was a wWII vet. Her brother lost a leg in the South Pacific. When the kids came home talking about how “horrible” Hiroshima was…she laid into them in a way I had never seen her talk.

She pointed out how easy it was for a 30 year old teacher to teach about when they didn’t have a clue.

It’s was funny.


77 posted on 08/06/2023 1:47:28 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: 21twelve

For all our government faults, the majority of the people in this country are decent people who want to help others and themselves.

The longer I live, the more I see that the government is nothing but liars, cheaters and thieves. Grifters fall under all of that.

The average American will literally give you the shirt off their back, in an emergency. Hell, I’ve done it, but I’m not average :-)


78 posted on 08/06/2023 1:48:42 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: Vermont Lt; EagleOne

Btt!!


79 posted on 08/06/2023 2:10:36 PM PDT by sit-rep
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To: McGruff

I figure we owe them at least one more for Yoko Ono.


80 posted on 08/06/2023 2:44:34 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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