RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Was it the right decision to drop the bomb?

You're just desperately throwing out all kinds of crap, soliciting for whatever reaction you can get. What a desperate, pathetic human being you are, rex.

for fuck's sake wondy, no one's going to do anything but laugh at you if you haven't learned by now not to take the bait.

I win again by being a loser!

it's easy to put it into cold hard facts and figures and erase the human moral decision that was made at that time. It's a horrible weapon and a shame it was used. Was it "right" in the long one to kill 100,000 in order to "save" an "estimated" higher number? That I think is an impossible question to answer. It's done and hopefully a weapon so horrible is never used again.

Anyone ever hear about the guy who was at both sites? He was on vacation in Hiroshima on the edge of the blast radius and suffered flash burns. He went home to Nagasaki and was actually in his bosses office trying to explain what had happened when the second bomb was dropped. That one didn't do any serious harm to him. He lived for awhile only dying last year (which is why the story is fresh in my memory).

The 40,000 figure is from the book Hiroshima, by John Hersey, a famous sympathetic account of the bombing, seen through the eyes of four people who were in Hiroshima the day of the explosion. And their struggle afterward in the weeks and years after the explosion.

But even this account still acknowledges the large amount of Japanese troops in the city, and the city's role in the invasions of Korea and Manchuria.

See also The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang, to fully wipe away the liberal image of the Japanese as innocent victims of American racism. The Japanese have never been held accountable for their W W II racism toward every nation they occupied, even 65-plus years later.

Anyone ever hear about the guy who was at both sites? He was on vacation in Hiroshima on the edge of the blast radius and suffered flash burns. He went home to Nagasaki and was actually in his bosses office trying to explain what had happened when the second bomb was dropped. That one didn't do any serious harm to him. He lived for awhile only dying last year (which is why the story is fresh in my memory).

Yet unlike so many victims of radiation exposure, Yamaguchi slowly recovered and went on to live a relatively normal life. He served as a translator for the U.S. armed forces during their occupation of Japan, and later taught school before resuming his engineering career at Mitsubishi. He and his wife even had two more children in the 1950s, both of them girls. Yamaguchi dealt with the horrific memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by writing poetry, but he avoided discussing his experiences publicly until the 2000s, when he released a memoir and became part of the anti-atomic weapons movement. He later journeyed to New York in 2006 and spoke about nuclear disarmament before the United Nations. “Having experienced atomic bombings twice and survived, it is my destiny to talk about it,” he said in his speech.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi wasn’t the only person to endure two atomic blasts. His coworkers Akira Iwanaga and Kuniyoshi Sato were also in Nagasaki when the second bomb fell, as was Shigeyoshi Morimoto, a kite maker who had miraculously survived Hiroshima despite being only a half-mile from ground zero. All told, some 165 people may have experienced both attacks, yet Yamaguchi was the only person officially recognized by the Japanese government as a “nijyuu hibakusha,” or “twice-bombed person.” He finally won the distinction in 2009, only a year before he died at the age of 93.