(December 14, 2018 at 9:43 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The March 1945 fire bombing of Tokyo killed more people than either nuke. The target cities were both legit targets according to the laws of war. Both were prefect capitals and regional military Has. The Nagasaki bomb went off directly over >5,000 Japanese troops, the most deadly single "shot" in the history of war.
Well yea, take into account all the allied bombings in the Pacific and Europe collectively, Fat Man and Little Boy are a drop in bucket. It still does not change for me that there is no way to sanitize our species ability to dream up ways to kill each other. I am not trying to make an argument that the Allies shouldn't have fought the war at all. And again, the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were that "pushing the fat guy off the bridge to save more people in the rail car." The other thing those two bombs did also, was sent a message to Russia too. It was the start of the age of nukes regardless.
We can all argue leadership and the oppression of authoritarian states, which Japan was at the time. But it still does not change, that my Japanes X's grandparents were alive at the time, gave birth to her parents, and as a result I met her in College and married her. The good that came out of the aftermath is that Japan and America are now strong allies. And while we were enemies at the time, when I look at the images of the vaporized outlines of bodies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the burnt survivors with skin bubbled up and or falling off their bodies, it is still none the less horrifying to see.
I am glad we fought the war and won. But for me, it still does not change that I wish more of our species worldwide didn't feel the need to get to that point in the first place. But as long as you have power hungry people who have the potential to get into power and abuse those around them, it is an impossible goal to stay out of it 100% of the time.
