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

[rocketpig]

routsounmanman said:

KichiVerde said:

bazmeistergen said:

This information is fine and all, but only if you accept the incorrect assumption that the Japanese didn't want to surrender. They did, but not in the way the politicians of the allies were willing to accept.

Moreover, Japan were the aggressors. Their unprovoked attack of Pearl Harbor demonstrated they were not to be trusted.

No, the Japan attack at Pearl Harbor was America's ticket into WW2 (with support from the American people). The moment they embargoed such an agressive Japan's oil, they knew and wanted them to attack.

Basically, they were provoked.

They weren't provoked in their 1930s conquests, Nanking, or in the wholesale slaughter of Chinese citizens and Pacific Islanders. 

The US put strict embargoes on them (and the Germans) because they were attacking US allies. The American public wasn't ready to enter a war yet and Pearl Harbor gave the impetus to fight back with real troops.

But to say the Japanese were "provoked" is entirely and utterly wrong. They played the first hand and the US reacted to it, forcing an escalating situation.