(September 19, 2013 at 12:12 am)Ryantology Wrote: There's no way to know for sure, but I think Hiroshima was, in retrospect, an inadvertent sacrifice which may have saved all of humanity from annihilation. Nagasaki is harder to justify, if justification is even possible.
Very interesting point. Looking back, the world stood precariously on the edge of annihilation for so long, even after the fall of the Soviet Union. The last "close call" I'm aware of happened in 1995, when the US ran a missile test. We'd informed our Russian counterparts but the message wasn't delivered. The football was taken to President Yeltsin's desk. Fortunately, Yeltsin didn't react and decided there was no reason to think America was launching an attack.
There was much in WWII that I have doubts about. Was it really necessary to bomb Nagasaki? Or firebomb Dresden (a city of neither military nor industrial significance)? I just say it was as nasty a war as I hope humanity ever sees.
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