After what they did to the Chinese, they deserved it. The POW tortures, Pearl Harbor, they brought it on themselves.
War is Hell. Don’t start them.
It wasn’t just the Chinese, it was the Koreans, the Philippines and a bunch of other places too. The Japanese were barbaric. They were much worse than the nukes were.
A Hiroshima woman survivor was a guest speaker at my daughter’s HS about 4 years ago. She became a puppet of the anti-nuke, anti-war left. You should have heard the groans from kids in the audience when I raised my hand and talked about the 500,000 GI’s that would have died with an invasion of mainland Japan. She said no...also didn’t think the Chinese atrocities were true. Sorry for her pain, but a house fire would have produced the same scars.
All this over Hiroshima.
Last February was the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Manila, where the Japanese massacred 100,000 civilians. A Hiroshima-scale killing with bayonets, rifles, grenades, nothing high tech.
Were there hundreds of lamenting articles all over the international press ?
The residents of Hiroshima had nothing to do with the Shanghai killings. That sort of excuse is not only inaccurate, but immoral.
Actually, there was no excuse for using nuclear weapons on civilians in Japan. The Japanese were defeated, and near starvation. There was no urgency to invade Japan — except in the plans of Stalin.
Stalin’s agents encouraged us on high own behalf. He then swooped in to seize Manchuria and give Mao this region. Then he began a huge “bring the boys home” propaganda drive to get us out of the picture. Being a democracy, with no staying power in war, we eagerly began to dismantle our military.
But we never needed to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Why those cities? One of them just happened to have the highest proportion of Christians of anywhere in Japan. How did that help end the war?