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

[rocketpig]

MDMAniac said:

rocketpig said:

MDMAniac said:

And I had good laugh at all those arguments like "estimations were that more innocent ppl would die without nuking them". Brainwashing must be funny.

Conservative estimates had over 88,000 people dying in Tokyo during one bombing raid, with other estimates going close to 130,000.

Last I checked, not a single a-bomb was dropped on Tokyo.

ORLY? Then it must be real reason for nuking them! I'm sorry I had such awful doubts about the government, it looks like they really cared about all those poor Japanese... -.-

I didn't say they cared about the Japanese, they wanted to end the war and unless the Japanese unconditionally surrendered, they were going to level the country with conventional weaponry, which WOULD have led to more deaths.

On a side point, I'd like to clarify a point I never brought up earlier: while I support the American decision to drop the bomb on HIroshima to put an exclamation point on the war and force an *unconditional* surrender, I definitely question the decision to drop the second bomb on Nagasaki. In my opinion, the first bomb proved the point. A few weeks should have been allowed to pass to give the Japanese time to adjust to the shock of having a city decimated. It seemed superfluous and rather cruel to me. A second city shouldn't have suffered that fate.