The Nuking of Japan

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A United States surrender to Japan only would not have meant a Japanese occupation. You forget there must be terms to surrender. You can surrender and essentially have it mean, "Yeah, let's just go back to our own business and stop killing each other." Yes, I do mean it. I would rather see my country surrender with good terms than nuke people.

This needs to be visited.





Don't like the pictures? Tough. You're advocating it, or at least making excuses for it. No excuse for that. None. It wasn't an accident. It wasn't necessary. It was deliberate. I will be the first to say that they were desperate times. I think those who did it did not realize the absolute power of what they were unleashing. Even by the time they bombed Nagasaki, the extent of what they had done was not known. It was horror visited upon civilians. Sheer, absolute horror on the largest scale ever.

My apologies, COH, it was the day before Nagasaki. Not Hiroshima. My point remains.

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CoH, what do you think those bombs were aimed at? We directly targeted civilians too.

Japan would not have refused to surrender, as evidenced by the fact that they surrendered well before they were "annihilated."