‘US government documents admit that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nuclear attack was the first strike in Washington’s Cold War on the Soviet Union. Ben Norton reviews the historical record.’
“A limited capacity.” Or, they might have decided that if they were going to lose, they would take as many people as they could with them.
Read up on biological warfare Unit 731 and tell me that there was no chance they’d have killed as many people as they could.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Fascists are often cowards, I’m not saying they wouldn;t callously kill people during their retreat, rather that atrocities take planning and coordination, ergo time, time they wouldn’t have if they wanted to flee and they would have,
If your logic held up there’d be little stopping them from committing these light-speed atrocoties between the second bomb and the surrender.
Plus, if they really wanted to go out in a blaze-of-glory Goetterdaemmerung situation, why would the atomic bombs have made any difference whatsoever? The argument seems to be “the Japanese government wanted to kill Japanese civilians, and the only way we Americans could stop them was by… killing Japanese civilians.”
See also: Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea etc.
The Nazis knew that the Russians and the Allies were coming. they kept the concentration camps going to the last minute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Surrender_and_immunity
Curious.
Interesting.
It just keeps going.
So glad US nuked civilians so they could have sole occupation of Japan.
I notice that you didn’t mention one of the enslaved Asian people in your roundup. I guess whn your family hasn’t been enslaved or raped it’s easy to have strong moral judgements
plz explain how these bombs killing civilians and enslaved people achieved anything for these groups you mention, it is very unclear how those are logically connected in your mind
So, you don’t know anything about the Japanese enslaving, raping and killing Asian people? Rape on Nanking was never taught to you? You pleading ignorance is right on target.
yes I know of these events
according to all historical sources available with credibility today, the bombs did not hasten the end of the war with Japan - this is what “militarily unnecessary, morally reprehensible, or both” means
even the wiki page says Unit 731 closed down in response to Soviet military successes, not the bombs
the bombs did not have an impact in the way you seem to think at all as historically understood today
the liberation of the peoples you speak of were due to the Soviets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet–Japanese_War