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8 minutes ago, janice6 said:

At that point in time, it was the thing to do.  More American lives were saved than what this cost.

Don't push us too far!

People have argued about this pretty much since September of 1945.

From the perspective of those alive then:  There is zero doubt that it was the right thing to do.   It was also a horrible thing to do.  But then again fire bombing 24 square miles of Tokyo in one night wasn't a nice thing to do either.  We were not in the business of being nice and either were the Japanese.

This war...was a horrible moment in human history.  The most extreme event in human history.

And i think we saved lives  by ending the war with the bombs.

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6 minutes ago, gwalchmai said:

I wonder what happened to that guy in the pic.

Hope it worked out for him.  But standing there he was absorbing a lot of radiation.

Oddly enough, there were a handful of people who left Hiroshima after the bomb and went to Nagasaki to get hit a second time.

Talk about bad luck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi

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