| i did not intend for this to be a thread debating the condemnation of the dropping of atomic bombs on japan. at least if we had continued with conventional fighting fewer civilians would have been killed and more enemy combattants. we could have nuked some of their island strongholds instead of japan. why didn't we nuke Iwo Jima instead of the japanese mainland, for example?
we also had a penchant for firebombing. we firebombed 50 cities in japan the size of nagasaki. hundreds of thousands or millions of japanese civilians likely died in those city-sized fires.
this goes to show the danger of militaristic nationalism, like what we are considering today in america. |