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

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finalrpgfantasy said:

raptors11 said:

Casualties of the 2 atomic bombs - About 200,000

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/MED/med_chp10.shtml

 

Chinese civilians killed by the Japanese during Japan's invasions of China during WWII - About 17 million

http://www.japan-101.com/history/sino1.htm

 

 

I don't feel bad at all for Japan. They killed so many civilians. Out of those 17 million chinese they killed it says 10 million or so were collateral damage of military operations which is understanble to some extent, but the other 7 million were basically murdered in non-military operations.

you are saying that every japanese person has the fault of the 17 million chinnese dead, the majority of the dead of the bomb were not soldiers, they were civilians who has no fault about the dead of the chinnese.

And a conventional invasion would have killed American troops, Japanese troops, MORE Japanese civilians than the a-bombs through starvation and carpet bombing, all the while potentially taking the war into 1946.

Why do people think conventional invasion was so clean at the time? Targeting civilian structures was commonplace in that period of war. Thankfully, the western world has progressed technology past that point.