Why did America get away with bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

username196545

Because it was for the "greater good" or some sh**. I too am interested in this question.

Why do you think they did it?

I'm gonna get back to this thread later today, when I'm at home, kk.

Reply 21

ExcessNeo

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Original post by adam_zed

LOL I swear this is from South Park?

It is indeed.

Reply 22

Sani-Insanity

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Denying the effects of the Fat Man and Little Boy is the same as the Nazi Party denying that the Holocaust ever happened. In my opinion.

Reply 23

Kagutsuchi

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Original post by Sani-Insanity

Just wondering

Because it was war and war justifies atrocities - as warped as that may be.

Reply 24

fire2burn

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Either way hundreds of thousands of Japanese would have died anyway. If the US didn't use the nukes they'd have fire bombed the cities.

Reply 25

infernalcradle

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cos history is written by the victors

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Aramiss18

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I swear I've heard/read Japan was in the process of surrendering and the US knew it. They just wanted to show the world, well Russia, they had this great weapon. Like Dresden it was a horrible act that would have been vilified by the Allies had axis powers done it. But oh well, like 9/11, the US gets away with it again.

Reply 27

She_Bittersweet

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Because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor first.

Reply 28

Kalysto

Original post by Sani-Insanity

Just wondering

For the same reason that Japan got away with many of their war atrocities. And how they still get away with denying/playing down the events of The Rape of Nanking, even going as far as mediating their history textbooks to say that it either didn't happen, or that only a few 20,000 died in the massacre instead of over 200,000. And no, I'm not biased against Japan. Japanese is my degree atm >_> Bet you didn't know that one of the very people carrying out live human experimentation in Unit 731 went on to become the founder of Japan's largest pharmaceutical company after the war; not to mention that Emperor Hirohito, the man that sanctioned all the war atrocities such as the Bataan Death March and the PoW death camps got away with it. In short, both countries pulled strings to get away with their war atrocities.

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 29

manthew

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Original post by Aramiss18

I swear I've heard/read Japan was in the process of surrendering and the US knew it. They just wanted to show the world, well Russia, they had this great weapon. Like Dresden it was a horrible act that would have been vilified by the Allies had axis powers done it. But oh well, like 9/11, the US gets away with it again.

This prompted me to find the leak cable around the date. Interestingly, there were barely 10 cables published on the year 2001 in wikileaks.. hmmmm thoughts?

Reply 30

member569366

Original post by She_Bittersweet

Because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor first.

2,402 personnel killed versus hundreds of thousands of civilians vaporized or left to die of radiation sickness by the bombs.

Reply 31

lukejoshjedi

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Original post by hamijack

Because the only other option (an invasion of Japan) would have been much more costly for both sides.

This. This very much

Reply 32

She_Bittersweet

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Original post by Glowy Amoeba

2,402 personnel killed versus hundreds of thousands of civilians vaporized or left to die of radiation sickness by the bombs.

I didnt justify it i just said the reason :rolleyes:

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member569366

Original post by She_Bittersweet

I didnt justify it i just said the reason :rolleyes:

my bad

Reply 34

adam0311

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Simple really. They bombed Pearl Harbor. Killed 2k men. So the US nuked 250k people. Makes sense, right?

Reply 35

Sani-Insanity

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It's amazing how much war can change people so much. Even the most timid person can turn into a killing machine.

Reply 36

GlibByNature

Didn't the US send a representative for the first time this year? (65th anniversary). Until then they hadn't sent anyone, since they still believed that they were right to bomb Japan and that attending a memorial service would show a 'weakness' on their part-I mean fair enough but don't they have any respect for the fallen?

(PS Pearl Harbour was not the reason why the atomic bombs were used. :rolleyes:

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Reply 37

TheRevolution

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Original post by Sani-Insanity

Just wondering