Even Oppenheimer was conflicted.
Hiroshima, 6 August 1945
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Even Oppenheimer was conflicted.
OMG
U.S. Airstrikes Destroyed a Busy Afghanistan Trauma Hospital
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-ai...l-six-years-later-it-is-reopening-11628251200
It's the 76th anniversary today.
So. When the Twin Towers were knocked down and 3,000 Americans killed, you (like your Deadbeat sister) advocated for 'turning the other cheek'?
hindsight is 20/20
This is why I hate historical revisionism; same thing as Critical Race Theory
you can't judge event of the past from todays perspective
Im sure there is lot of angst. But it took 2 A- BOMBS to end the war. that should tell you something
It's an interesting Debate. Somewhat timely.
Ummmmm...it takes two to make peace and only one to make war.
What was FDR supposed to do after Pearl Harbor, in your opinion?
I understand defending ourselves. I still don’t support war. I will never view the nuking of Japan as necessary.
It's a Politics Forum, we're all here to voice our opinions. You support Deadbeats and being a Doormat. I support defending America and Western Values. (like NOT gassing women and children with Internationally Banned Chemical Weapons)
Nah, you just support your supposed right to write filth about the women here, annoy the males who think you're a chihuahua, and your right to provoke flame wars because that's the only way you know you're still alive. Now waddle on back to the angry, hangry spider's web with the rest of your gossip girl clique and let the adults talk, pumpkin.
Don't know.
I left it simply because it’s the anniversary of the event!
Nah, you just support your supposed right to write filth about the women here, annoy the males who think you're a chihuahua, and your right to provoke flame wars because that's the only way you know you're still alive. Now waddle on back to the angry, hangry spider's web with the rest of your gossip girl clique and let the adults talk, pumpkin.
Translation: 'OK. I'm a Deadbeat. What can I say?'.
Today is the 76th anniversary of the day we dropped the first atomic weapon on Hiroshima. The debate over was it justified or not continues, and thus is current. Your take?
Good Call. It's timely, plus it's bringing up emotional involvement not usually seen here.
Agree.
Oh good. Phantasmal and Owl agree with Moon.
"...the rationale for the atomic bombings has come to rest on a single colossal fabrication, which has gained surprising currency — that they were necessary in order to save a half-million or more American lives. These, supposedly, are the lives that would have been lost in the planned invasion of Kyushu in December, then in the all-out invasion of Honshu the next year, if that had been needed. But the worst-case scenario for a full-scale invasion of the Japanese home islands was forty-six thousand American lives lost.7
The ridiculously inflated figure of a half-million for the potential death toll — nearly twice the total of US dead in all theaters in the Second World War — is now routinely repeated in high-school and college textbooks and bandied about by ignorant commentators. Unsurprisingly the prize for sheer fatuousness on this score goes to President George H.W. Bush, who claimed in 1991 that dropping the bomb "spared millions of American lives."8
[url]https://mises.org/library/harry-truman-and-atomic-bomb
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If you weren't a fucking moron you'd back up that lie with a cited quote. That said, if it makes you feel like a "real man" typing it, then go for it.