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

[theprof00]

mai said:

theprof00 said:

1. At the time radiation effects of the bomb were not known. Americans were helping clean and rebuild those cities and subsequently developed cancer and mutations. No, the devastating effect of radiation was not the tipping point in surrender.

What?

theprof00 said:

 The nukes were a warning to the russians, and seeing as how they quite immediately sparked the cold war, maybe you can begin to understand the situation a little bit better.

What again?

Yes, the first suspicion of radiation from the bombings were weeks after the bombs dropped.

The initial symptoms of radiation was thought to be shock. It wasn't until epilation (hair falling out) that they realized.

 

second question, well honestly cold war beginnings started a few years earlier, but many people credit the abombs and denial of any japanese territory as the first major stepping stone to the cold war. Russia was working on its own atmoic warheads. You can see how the arms race started here, and dramatically increased in tension from this point on.