barneystinson69 said:
nanarchy said:
WTF? without getting into a political debate NEITHER were necessary as the result was already decided, they just sped up the process. The second bomb definitely wasn't necessary as Japan was already at the negotiating table for terms of surrender at that stage just they were still demanding their political structure stay in place. The effects of those two bombs are still there today, they killed hundreds and thousands of innocent civilians. People in those cities are still suffering inflated rates of cancer and other health side effects of radiation poisoning to this day. So while these cities may not be radioactive today some 70 years later the effects are still being felt. If this was done by any other country it would have been listed as a war crime for targetting civilians.
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Japan wasn't going to surrender otherwise. Why didn't Japan surrender once the nazi's lost instead of waiting till this happened? There was no other solution that would result in less loss of life. If you can give me one, I will be shocked.
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There is NEVER an excuse to target civilians,it is one of the very worst war crimes on the levels of nazi germany made them no better than the enemy, they executed 300-500 thousand innocents to save soldiers lives. When you put your miltary above the lives of innocents you have already lost. Iraq and Afghanistan would have saved hundreds of US soldier lives if they had turned those countries into glass too.
