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

[raptors11]

Videogirl said:

raptors11 said:

No civilian casualties can be considered anything but a tragedy; but with that said 200,000 lives lost which ended WWII (at least in the pacific) sounds a lot better than the inhumane slaughter of literally millions of innocent Chinese by the Japanese.

The American reason for dropping the bomb was to end the war, the Japanese had no excuse to kill all those people.

It's probably around 300'000 and it's a low estimate since we don't know for sure how many were blown right away by the explosion in Hiroshima, since many have been litteraly cremated and have only left a shadow imprinted on the concrete. in Hiroshima about 80'000 died from the blast, and another 80'000-100'000 in the follwing years because of  the radiations. In Nagasaki about 40'000 died in the initial blast, about 10'000 in the following days probably 50'000 more in the following 5 years due to radiation.

And you have to add to that the thousands of people who developped cancers and the miscarriages you can attribute to those same radiations.

Here's a little read : http://www.wtj.com/archives/hiroshima.htm

Yeah the cancer and diseases after the explosion due to radiation was pretty bad. That's the worst thing about nukes I think. It it was just a huge blast then it wouldn't be THAT big of a deal but it makes everything radiated forever.