(June 19, 2018 at 3:46 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(June 19, 2018 at 3:32 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Like I said what classifies as "terrorism" is subjective. How would you define the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Seeing how they were primarily aimed at the civilian population in order to force the Japanese government to surrender, falls in line with the definition of terrorism.
Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were Prefect capitals and military command centers, as well as munitions production centers. The special torpedoes used at Pearl Harbor were made at Nagasaki. One of the bombs went off directly over 5,000 troops lined up for morning parade. As for civilians, the Japanese War Minister had declared all adult Japanese to be part of the armed forces. The government also moved munitions production into the family homes to decentralize that work. We responded by decentralizing our bombing.
The bombs did cause the War Minister, Gen. Anami, to go from the hardline faction in the Big Six to the surrender faction. This made the vote 3-3 and caused the cabinet to have to tell the Emperor they had no recommendation on how to proceed with the war. Hirohito made the call to surrender.
Who were the fire bombings aimed at?
