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albe asked in Politics & GovernmentMilitary · 4 months ago

hiroshima and nagasaki were more sad than 9.11 end of story?

do not tell me parl harbor that was a military attack! 

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  • James
    Lv 7
    4 months ago
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    Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also “military attacks”, but in a war Japan started. That is the fact you idiots keep ignoring. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 months ago

    In some ways yes

    but

    not in all ways.

    One important difference

    is that we were at war with Japan.

    The use of the atomic bomb was not a terrorist act.

    It was an act intended to force quick surrender

    and indeed

    the US warned Japan what was going to happen if they did not surrender

    and they did not

    and so it happened.

    (It's interesting: after the first bomb, the Emperor wanted to surrender but his generals advised him that the U.S. could not possibly have another such bomb and that Japan should not surrender. Again: after the first bomb, the U.S. warned Japan that they would drop another such bomb if Japan did not surrender unconditionally, which was the reason for the delay - three days - between the bombings. We intentionally gave Japan time to surrender. After the second bomb the Emperor ignored his generals and surrendered.)

    Also: the cities bombed were two of the biggest producers of military hardware in Japan.

    That is: they were "manufacturing cities".

    That doesn't justify the deaths of civilians, of course

    but clearly

    there is a difference between an overt act of killing

    preceded by a warning

    against a military target (that includes civilians, I make no excuses)

    intended to force a surrender and end to war

    compared to a secret act

    against a strictly-civilian target

    with no such "moral goal" as an end to war intended.

  • Anonymous
    4 months ago

    hiroshima and nagasaki was a spiteful ACT by America

    Japan was about to surrender

    America dropped hiroshima and nagasaki atomic bombs:

    -for test purposes on HUMANS

    -to prevent Russia from entering the pacific war and scoring victories

    americans should understand how to research FACTS

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