The WWII Atomic Bomb Attacks Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This may be a silly question, but what do you mean when you say "helped rebuild their nation"?

 

Research Douglas MacArthur and rebuilding Japan.

 

In a nutshell, the bombing in Pearl harbor by the Japs was necessary.

 

Japan was already dead before the attack but the Americans secured the dead body by the atomic bombs. that's all.


no, the US did not rebuild Japan.
the US build a Japanese puppet only to caring money and weapon for the US.

 

Fixed.

 

you've read The Jesus Factor?

Spoiler

 

I have no issue with them dropping the bombs at all.

Japan should have considered this before they did a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.

War is hell, better to be on the winning side.

And if you don't think similar stuff happened in Europe on a similar scale, look up Dresden.

DD

 

We provided security, helped them rewrite their constitution and poured in millions of $$$ to help them rebuild.

Same as we did in Europe....

IMO, the USA did what it had to do to win the war unconditionally.

Wiki has a fairly comprehensive page on the invasion and casualty estimates

DD

 

Japan provides weapons for the US?
You clearly know jack about Japanese foreign policy. But yes, the US rebuilt Japan largely because they wanted an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" to deal with Russia. How is that a problem?

 

hella big picture

http://www.nucleardarkness.org/incl...hiroshima/panoramic/hiroshima_panoramic_2.jpg

 

its wiki, but a pretty good summary...

its clear that there were many at the time, military and civilian who were throwing out that 'million casualties' number.

 

I'm still waiting for my robo warrior suit. My tax dollars are fail until I get it.

 

bomb or not, japanese houses are made of paper.

 

A blood drenched invasion of Japan was simply not an option, nor were the bombs dropped as revenge for Pearl Harbor. It was a strategic decision based on quickly obtaining an unconditional surrender, and it worked.

 

I guess I'm the only one that thinks it's sad that we live in a world where it's acceptable to nuke folks.

 

That makes two of us.

 

Here's my take.

My father served in combat for 9 months with the 82nd airborne during WWII. During this time he fought in Holland during Market Garden, in Germany during the Rhineland campaign and in Luxembourg during the Battle of the Bulge. He was in Germany on May 8th, 1945 -- VE day -- he had somehow survived.

However, because he had not earned enough "points" to go home, he decided to accept an offer the military made which was if you requested it, you could be among the first to head back to America...but only on leave. He did so as my grandfather (who was a farmer) was sick and my father was hoping to help out on the farm and of course see his sick father.

Meanwhile, the men like my father who received this priority to go home would also be among the first to be shipped to the Pacific theatre for the presumed 2 part invasion of the Japanese homeland to take place in the fall of 1945 and spring of 1946.

The events of August 6th and 9th ended that committment. My father never had to go to war again. I feel confident that had those bombs not been dropped that the war would have continued and the invasions would have occurred. And if that happened, its very likely that he would have been killed....meaning I would never have been here to write this post.

I am very sorry for the civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But I am grateful to President Truman for choosing to follow this course of action which spared the lives of tens of thousands of American soldiers...my father among them.

General William Tecumseh Sherman said it best. --

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."

 

War is hell, but that doesn't mean civilians are legitimate targets. The atomic bombings were nothing short of state terrorism. And then they went and prosecuted dozens of people for crimes against humanity when, by WWII standards, the atomic bombings were crimes against humanity.

Since when are civilians considered acceptable military objectives? When it serves a political purpose, ie - terrorism?

 

Bataan death march, look up the atrocities committed in China by the Japanese soldiers.

Civilian casualties are part of war, in order to win war you have to take the will to fight or kill everyone on the other side.

I think the US did the right thing in Japan, Russia was going to invade in late August and we would have a much different world if that happened.

Believe it or not, Japan was better off because of those bombs.

DD

 

Isn't Bataan in the Philippines?