70th Anniversary of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Unprecedented horrors were unleashed on 6th August 1945. How do you feel was it necessary or was it going to far?

Unprecedented horrors were unleashed numerous times throughout ww2 with far more casualties being killed through conventional measures.

The debate, raised by Japanese nationalists in the 1970s attempting to white wash Japanese history, will continue to rage.

Japan was the aggressor.

Unconditional surrender was their only option which they chose not to accept.

The allied invasion of mainland Japan was expected to Cause half a million allied casualties.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall

There was a belief that Japan may have released chemical and /or biological weapons against mainland United States.

Japan started it. They lost.

The pain and suffering caused by the nuclear bomb and its aftermath was unprecedented.

I'm not saying the Japanese were innocent though going through the atrocities case by case the civilians who died from radiation died in a horrible way.

Should multilateral nuclear disarmament be put into practice?

Nobody should deliberately kill the civilians

That is just bad and messed up

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Nobody should deliberately kill the civilians

That is just bad and messed up

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Nuclear weapons were used as a weapon of terror to force Imperial Japan to surrender due to the overwhelming force of the enemy, and so within the context of the war, I believe that the use of nuclear weapons was justified.

However, using them on two cities which were not targets of military importance was a terrible act. If they had dropped the weapons of the coast as a kind of 'warning shot' they would have surrendered anyway - it was a freaking nuke. Perhaps if they had continued to fight afterwards using the weapon on the land would have been justified, but as it stands the bombings were very cruel.

I feel as though this recent reaction is being grossly engineered through the western PC guilt conscience that is rampant. Japan has moved on, and don't want to drudge up animosity from 70 years ago.

The Americans could have done much worse and could have bombed, say Tokyo and Kyoto, which would have crippled Japan for decades upon decades.

Tokyo and Kyoto had already been flattened by conventional bombing.

I often wonder had Japan managed to develop their bomb first and used it then their liberals would be apologising.

Tokyo was bombed pretty well, but it certainly wasn't decimated the way other parts of Japan were. Kyoto didn't have much going on for it at all. There were a few bombings here and there, but it was relatively untouched, as evidenced by the huge number of pre-war buildings present.