When are we going to the moon?

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Retrasado said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
I don't know TheRealMafoo, nukular bombs cost a looooooot of money.

Japan was already destroyed. They didn't need any more bombs. They were out of fuel and ammo and food and starving to death.

It was just like the space race, between us and the Soviets, to see who could finish off Japan faster, to come out as the sole victor of WW2. We were all mad that we met halfway in Germany, and we wanted to smash Japan by ourselves to make up for it.

As soon as we dropped the nuke, the Soviets got worried that we'd beat Japan without them and we'd look better, like we did it alone, so they immediately invaded and started slaughtering people.

So we dropped another bomb.

umm.... no. We dropped the bomb because we really did want to have to do an Iwo Jima-style fight-to-the-death-for-every-yard slog through 1200 miles of Japan while slaughtering tens of millions of Japanese soldiers and civilians and probably losing 2-3 million of our own soldiers; and we would have had to do that too, because the Japanese would have fought to the death for every millimetre of land they gave up. imo, dropping a couple low-yield nukes is much better than having to wipe a 380000km² country with more than 100000000 people off the face of the earth.

OT: I don't know. However, a good reason to go back would be to mine titanium. The moon's "soil" has almost 11% titanium in a lot of places.

 

 

Japan could not have afforded to keep fighting.  They were out of ammo, food, and fuel.  The military had hijacked the country and was ordering Japanese people to their death.  The American media was making it look like a long grueling war, and we fell for their "kamikaze" bullshit (they were forced to do it, not willing suicide bombers).

Our Air Force General Curtis LeMay said we didn't need to use the nuke because he'd already personally "bombed Japan back into the stone age."  Tokyo was completely wiped off the map with regular bombs.  Why did Hiroshima, a much smaller city, require a nuke?  The radiation from the bombs has been killing and injuring people long after our peace treaty.

It would have been cheaper and more humane to use regular bombs, but we didn't give a fuck about either of those issues, because we were focused on our image as a war machine contrasted with the Soviets.

 

I am not defending all the evil shit Japan did in WW2, but I'm sure as fuck not defending all the evil shit the U.S. did in WW2 either.  Targeting civilians should be a war crime and a crime against humanity.  Why did America get a free pass with the nuke, but now they get to whine and play the victim about 9/11?  We're the victims when we're on the receiving end, but when we're massacreing the innocent, we get away with it.  Americans have a very selective memory when it comes to all the bullshit we've done and still do.