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

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Videogirl said:

arcane_chaos said:

correct me if I'm wrong, but after Japan surrendered, didn't the U.S. send aid and help rebuild?(just like they did for Germany in both world wars?...again correct if I'm wrong on this too)

No after the war both Germany and Japan were  devasted and for several years people continued to starve, both countries alors had been condamned to pay a fine of several million dollars to the Allied. The US was a force of occupation in Japan and didn't help rebuild it, its role was just to insure the strict governance of the country until it had a stable government that pleased them. But the US started to use Japan according to its self interests in the Cold War and stationed more troops in Japan to establish its own Self defence force, despite the fact Japan had an anti-war article in its constituion. That led to protests and critics and ended the occupation in 1952, when a peace treaty was signed.

The Japanese, as well as the German rebuilt their countries and their economies alone.

Huh? 

The U.S supplied tons of economic aid to Western Europe after WWII - including West Germany. 

I don't know about Japan, though. 

Edit- Actually, no, The U.S did help Japan while it was under it's control, albeit not a lot. But I agree after that point Japan had a boom on it's on, without anyone's help.