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

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huaxiong90 said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:

Dropping those bombs is one of the greatest crimes against humanity ever committed.

I don't understand how anybody can still defend them.  Their argument seems to be that it was minimizing potential casualties by stopping the war as quickly as possible.  However, they're deciding that murdering countless innocent children and women and even non-Japanese was okay, as long as it minimized the deaths of U.S. soldiers and Japanese soldiers.  I disagree.  I don't think non-combat troops get to be a part of those equations.

Traditional bombs would have been cheaper, cleaner, more successful, and even deadlier.  More people died in the traditional bombing of Tokyo (but without mutated babies and decades of radiation poisoning).

We were just trying to scare the USSR by showing off our new weapons.  We weren't ending WW2 with the nukes; we were starting the Cold War.

I suppose that's also true.

I think it was the second, if not the most disgusting attrocity to happen in human history. i've seen interviews of some of the pilots (or whoever) involved in the bombing, and they show no remorse for what they've done. i suppose what you guys have said about the Cold War is true, but imo their will never be any excuse to justify it.

one of the things i can use actully is from Star Trek, in one of the original episodes Spock says that as humans we find it easier to comprehend the death of one rather than the death of many. i think this is true actully, theres simply no way its possible for me to comprehend what thousands of people went through. but i can imagine the human sufferring of completely burned man barley walking away from the fires, their flesh unrecognisible as human, or seeing black rain fall from the sky - my point is on an individual level it must have been absolutly horrific!!