• davel [he/him]
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    22 years ago

    We also nuked two cities, for reasons much less honorable or necessary than the one we are told.

      • davel [he/him]
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        12 years ago

        Two reasons, I think:

        • So Japan would unconditionally surrender to the US instead of (conditionally or unconditionally) surrendering to the USSR.
        • As a warning to the USSR to not spread communism further. The Cold War started even before WWII ended.
        • @TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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          12 years ago

          Close. What they were worried about was a hot war with the Soviets. There was also a great deal of uncertainty about Japanese willingness to continue to fight. It’s simply not the case that they had clear unambiguous intelligence on Japanese leadership’s intentions, which makes sense since there were several schools of thought among the Japanese.

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      2 years ago

      Don´t tell that to the average US American though, they really hate hearing this truth.

      • @TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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        -12 years ago

        Any respected historian on the subject will tell you that it’s way more complicated and nuanced than your average social media user is aware of. If, like Truman, you honestly believed that using atomic bombs on Japan would ultimately result in less loss of life, on a purely mathematical basis it was the only moral decision.

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          The idea of using the most powerful weapon in existence, a weapon with destructive powers never seen before, that of all weapons can kill the most people in one hit - 140.000 people in Hiroshima alone - to “reduce loss of life” and then telling yourself that it was the moral thing to do, must require some serious mental gymnastics, lmao.