Originally Posted By: Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man
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).



Why is it so impossible for you not to trash your own country.

Here's what I said a year ago:

You dropped a bomb on me... topic

 Originally Posted By: Wonder Boy, May 18, 2010
 Originally Posted By: WB, August 9, 2007
And Hiroshima, far from being an innocent civilian target, was the staging port for the invasions of Korea and Manchuria. Hiroshima at the time it was bombed housed 40,000 troops among its 160,000 total population. It was a legitimate military target, despite the liberal propaganda otherwise.


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.