Atomic bomb survivors want an apology from Obama.

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Nuvendil said:

Ruler said:

North Korea is sane and knows what they are doing, who nuked two civillian cities here? North Korea wants to have a nuke in order to defend themselfs against american foreign policy agression. The nuke will make them more save, it means less spending on convential arms like operating 1-2 million soldiers a year which could go somewhere else like feeding its people or build electricty palnts etc.

If you think the North Korean government is by any standard a good government then...wow I don't even know what to say.

And nukes don't make you safe. For one, they make you a larger target.  Second, it's not like anyone can use one right now, not attacking or defending.  So they can't use them to protect themselves.  All they can do is shield you from other nukes but that's not much since there are plenty of other destructive weapons out there.  

As for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I've given the facts on this numerous times so here's the short short short version:  they were military targets, one a massive command center and the other a weapons and munitions manufacturing center as well as containing an armory.  They were not pure soft targets, they would have been bombed to oblivion in the event of an invasion anyway.  Please see the rest of the freaking thread for details.

How can America justify having NOT dropped an atomic bomb on North Korean instead of engaging in the Korean War and NOT dropping a bomb on Hanoi prior to engaging in the Vietnam War? Wouldn't the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., with all the names of those young men etched into the stone in small font, be much shorter had America nuked Hanoi much earlier instead of engaging in a protracted conflict?