Its rather off-topic, but I noticed a few statements that I feel I must challenge:
Ivan the Colorado wrote:
I'm sorry but the nukes did save lives in the end. An invasion of Japan would have taken much longer and would have taken a lot more lives on either side and likely caused a lot more destruction throughout Japan. If I was a military commander, I would have nuked Japan in order to convince them to surrender, which they did. Sometimes you have to sacrifice some so more will live.
Karl Haushofer wrote:
Nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki wasted Japanese lives but saved American lives and helped the United States to win the war without high casualties. Japan was the enemy for the United States at the time and Japanese civilians were expendable.
What the United States did was evil and inhuman but cynically it was a success since they won the war and they never faced any repercussions for nuking two big cities. They even got Japan, a nation that they nuked, as a vassal/ally for 70 years and counting.
With all due respect, that is all nothing but establishment LIES & BULLSHIT designed to justify the atomic bombing of Japan which is a WAR CRIME OF THE HIGHEST ORDER and fully comparable to ANYTHING the Nazis committed in Europe.
Firstly, by early 1945 the Japanese knew they were defeated and were actively looking for a way to surrender with honor (with the preservation of the Emperor being their only condition), but the US ignored the overtures thru 3rd parties as an early end to the war did not mesh with US post-war plans. Japanese soldiers may have been fanatical at defending every inch of their territory, but only as long as their "God" Emperor commanded them to do so. Once Hirihito ordered the military to cease fighting, they all obeyed TO THE VERY LAST MAN. This is proof that a Japanese surrender didn't require the incineration of 100,000s of Japanese civilians - all that was necessary was to create conditions that could allow Hirihito to order an honourable surrender, which he was CLEARLY seeking.
The lie that Amerikkkans tell themselves about the atomic bombs saving the lives of 1 million US serviceman is a cheap and shallow fabrication, yet one that sucessive US governments, biased hostorians and corporate media hacks have happily indulged in as it is a sugar-coated fairy tale that reflects well upon Amerikkkans and their overly inflated opinions of themselves. If the bombings were conducted against London and New York by Nazi Germany to forestall attacks against their homeland, I doubt the same justification would be accepted, and that our judgement would be that such acts constitute unpardonable war crimes of the highest order.
Secondly, the US under that ignorant bumpkin Truman desired to intimidate the Soviet Union with the new wonder weapon and cement US dominance in the post-war world. Trumans arrogant posturing to Stalin following the successful test of "Trinity" at White Sands in July 1945 is testimony to this fact. The Soviets learned a lesson certainly, but not the one the US had in mind. Stalin took keen note that not only was the US leadership willing to exterminate entire cities at a stroke, they were willing to do so even when unnecessary, ie against a defenseless enemy secretly suing for peace. If the US was capable of doing that to the Japanese, Stalin believed the US would have no qualms about incinerating Soviet cities. It is no wonder that the Soviets distrusted US intentions and insisted on its own atomic weaponry.
In a very real sense, the actions of US President Truman were the genesis of the Cold War to come.
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