What America did to Japan was terrible.
Nuking Japan was like molesting a child...A horrible crime.
How did they get away with that...The Americans?
I'm with Japan beating America in education and economic growth.
Nuking Japan was like molesting a child...A horrible crime.
How did they get away with that...The Americans?
I'm with Japan beating America in education and economic growth.
Molesting a child? Is that what they're teaching in public schools these days? They did kinda start it. How about the war crimes and atrocities they inflicted on China? The cruelty inflicted on Allied POW's? The tens of thousands killed in a war they they started? God, what colossal ignorance.
sharePublic schools? Lol, I'm an ADULT in his 20s. America nuking Hiroshima was evil. There were children there, and not the sort one would like to nuke. Harry Truman was a MONSTER.
shareExactly, twenty something year old dipshit who either didn't learn what was taught, or learned the modern politically correct version of history. Tell that to the people that would've died to subjugate Japan. The Americans that were living their own lives when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The countless Europeans that were minding their own business when the fucking Germans invaded. I don't give a shit who was there. Japan would've fought down to the last man and the Allies knew that. Why are you such an idiot that you do not understand this? Pull your head out of your ass.
shareIf Japan got the nuke first you can guarantee they would have used it, if that had been the case we would be reading about Los Angeles and San Francisco instead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
shareAmerica nuking Hiroshima was evil. There were children there, and not the sort one would like to nuke.
No one in their 20s today is an “adult”.
As for the molestation comparison, Japan attacked first, and was trying to take over the world. Not quite an innocent child.
Weak, try harder.
No. You're a child in your 20s.
shareShut up, you ignorant know nothing toddler!
shareJapan was lucky the entire country wasn't nuked from top to bottom.
Destroying the great Japan could have never been a gift to the world. Where's your humanity? There were CHILDREN. Just damn kids going with mom and dad on holiday. It breaks my heart to see the coldness in this thread. Truman saw the mind of America but never it's heart.
shareOn holiday??? You really do not have a clue what you're talking about. Sorry but no sane person makes Japan out to be the victim in this scenario.
shareI suspect you are one of the bottom feeding troll sock puppets that infest Moviechat but just in case you aren't you should read up on:
1. The rape of Nanking
2. The Burma Railway
3. Korean comfort women
Also the Japanese were the aggressors. They invaded China, Korea, South East Asia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea on their way to Australia and committed atrocities galore. And they attacked America without warning. They were sadistic barbarians and I repeat they were lucky they weren't wiped from the face of the Earth.
Amen!
shareRape isn't like child murder...America committed more atrocities in the end.
shareSweet Cock is not a fan of Enola Gay.
shareWhat Japan did to China, Korea, Singapore, Philippines, Australia and Hawaii was terrible.
shareDo you know what would have happened if we hadn't nuked them? We were going to be invading them the way we invaded Normandy, with beach boats, and soldiers. There would have been 98% casualties, and the Japanese would have fought down to the last man, woman, and child, showing no mercy for anybody. My grandpa was scheduled to be on one of those boats, and if he had gone, he would have died, my mom and her siblings wouldn't have been born, and I wouldn't have been born either. Millions of our men would have died, many times more than those who actually did die in the Pacific Theater. The nukes' purpose was to break the will of the Japanese people and to force them to surrender.
And by the way, we occupied Japan for quite a few years after the war, and helped them to rebuild, (we did the same for Germany as well), so we would not suffer a repeat of what happened in the years between WWI and WWII, where they'd build up resentment and hatred and start all this bullshit again in a few decades. They are now some of our strongest allies in the world because of that relationship.
Your whining about the entire thing out of context, and using two other subjects that have nothing to do with each other and nuking Japan shows just how badly our public school system has failed, as well as revealing you have an IQ lower than 60, and didn't give a shit about actually reading your history books, and learning the truth.
And by the way, Japan's been in a Recession since the 1990s. Your welcome.
I agree that the destruction was terrible but the decision to drop the bombs may have been the best option. The emperor was considered the Japanese god and the Japanese believed that surrender was dishonorable. The soldiers and citizens of Japan would have fought to the death to defend their island. Many experts estimated that several hundred thousand or more US lives would be lost if the island was invaded.
In the Potsdam declaration, Truman gave the Japanese eleven days to surrender or face prompt and utter destruction. They dropped the bomb on Hiroshima first. The Japanese did not surrender so the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later. The Japanese surrendered four days after the second bomb was dropped.
I don't think you can compare dropping the bombs to child molestation. Japan was not innocent during the war. They brought destruction to other countries and it was their unfortunate moment to face carnage and destruction. I support the decision to drop the bombs in order to save American lives but we'll never know which choice was better.
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/decision-drop-atomic-bomb
https://www.history.com/news/hiroshima-nagasaki-second-atomic-bomb-japan-surrender-wwii
More people were killed in the tokyo bombing.
share...and the Soviet Union declared war and began over-running Manchuria. In fact, all three events (Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Soviet entry) were a left-right-left combo giving the Emperor enough cover to put an end to the war. Let's not also forget that there was an attempted coup that failed in spite of all this. The surrender announcement had to be smuggled out of the Imperial Palace. This gives us a pretty good indication that an attempted coup might have been successful if any one of those three events did not happen. I don't buy into the argument that using the bombs was irrelevant, as they clearly helped pave the way for the ultimate decision to surrender. It doesn't have to be an either/or proposition. My understanding is that there was a third bomb planned for later in August and maybe a fourth bomb planned for later in September if no surrender was forthcoming. At some point, Kyoto would have gotten nuked. I'm glad it wasn't because it would have been a great cultural loss to the world.
shareCrazy thought. Should the US have nuked Stalin? That monster Stalin caused so much trouble and eastern Europe was forced to exist under communism for over 45ish years. Would the Chinese communist party have taken without Soviet assistance? North Korea probably wouldn't exist without Stalin's meddling.
The US didn't know how devastating these bombs were. I read that Truman notified the military that he wanted to personally approve any more bombs after the second one. Nagasaki wasn't supposed to be the second target but Kokura was not visible due to cloud cover. The big bombing of Tokyo was in March so I don't understand why they wouldn't surrender until nukes were dropped. Was it just dogged determination or religious fervor? I would have raised the white flag after the Tokyo bombing.