What's your point of view in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb?

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Salnax said:

pezus said:

Salnax said:

It was no worse a crime than bombing those cities the old fashioned way.

Yes it was. The radioactivity affects the area for a long time.

They had no idea how radioactivity worked back then. To their knowledge, it was just a big bomb, and it took years for people to understand the consequences. Remember, these were the second and third weapons ever used. And the first was just for testing.

May I disgress in the 1920s, scientists discovered that radiation exposure caused genetic mutations on a cellular level. When the Manhattan Project began in the 1940s, radiation protection was considered very important. So saying scientists had no knowledge is wrong. On the other hand Japanese didn't knew about radiations and when it started killing them, they thought it was new unknown disease.