Today 08/06 the first Atomic Bomb was dropped on Japan 1945 (3 Viewers)

[Oliverlovesplanes]

 

[Gnomey]

An infamous day indeed.

 

[muskeg13]

A glorious war-ending day indeed!

I grew up knowing 7 uncles/great uncles who were in uniform (6 already in the Pacific) when the bombs dropped and ended the war.

 

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This photograph shows police as they pour cooking oil over junior high school children to soothe their burns. This photo was taken on the Miyuki Bridge between 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. about 1.4 miles from the hypocenter. The journalist photographer, Yoshito Matsushige, was the only person to capture images of the destruction on the day of the atomic bombing.

 

[Oliverlovesplanes]

This photograph shows police as they pour cooking oil over junior high school children to soothe their burns. This photo was taken on the Miyuki Bridge between 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. about 1.4 miles from the hypocenter. The journalist photographer, Yoshito Matsushige, was the only person to capture images of the destruction on the day of the atomic bombing.

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[Marcel]

A hinge in history. The world was never the same again after it.

 

[MIflyer]

You occasionally see a bumper sticker that says, "No More Hiroshimas."

Somebody said that such stickers should always be accompanied by one that says, 'You First! No More Pearl Harbors!"

 

[Marcel]

To me it's not such a simple discussion. Was the use of the atomic bomb a war crime? In my eyes, yes definitely, but so were the bombing of British and German cities, the Japanese civilian camps in the NEI and Philippines and so on and so on.

The more I learn from WW2, the more I realise that there is no such thing as black and white. It's just all shades of grey. In a war, in the end, everybody is a victim one way or the other.

 

[rochie]

To me it's not such a simple discussion. Was the use of the atomic bomb a war crime? In my eyes, yes definitely, but so were the bombing of British and German cities, the Japanese civilian camps in the NEI and Philippines and so on and so on.

The more I learn from WW2, the more I realise that there is no such thing as black and white. It's just all shades of grey. In a war, in the end, everybody is a victim one way or the other.

you said it so well my friend !

 

[muskeg13]

Oh, you bleeding hearts and revisionists need to read "Hell to Pay" D.M. Giangreco. The war crime would have been to not drop the bombs as soon as they were ready, and to not continue dropping them until the Japanese fully surrendered. This was not any shade of gray. In a few minutes it will be 9 Aug here, 81 years since the last war-winning shot was fired that ended the most catastrophic conflict mankind has ever experienced. Two bombs and done. The misery of 4-14 years (for China) of Japanese aggression was finally over.

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[Marcel]

Oh, you bleeding hearts and revisionists need to read "Hell to Pay" D.M. Giangreco. The war crime would have been to not drop the bombs as soon as they were ready, and to not continue dropping them until the Japanese fully surrendered. This was not any shade of gray. In a few minutes it will be 9 Aug here, 81 years since the last war-winning shot was fired that ended the most catastrophic conflict mankind has ever experienced. Two bombs and done. The misery of 4-14 years (for China) of Japanese aggression was finally over.

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It's always easier when everything is neat and tidy, isn't it.

Calling the Hiroshima bombing necessary, I can understand. There is a case to that. It doesn't make it less evil, it just makes it the lesser evil.
Calling it glorious like you did makes you either ignorant, just shallow or even immoral.

Btw, if you want to read up on this, I think it's only fair to read more than one book as it (might) be biased. This is interesting about the Japanese motivation to surrender and contradicts your simplistic view on the end of the war and why it happened. https://www.amazon.com/Racing-Enemy-Stalin-Truman-Surrender/dp/0674022416

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

There is nothing glorious about war or the killing of innocent women and children, regardless of what side did it, or for what reasons.

It has nothing to do with being a "bleeding heart" or a "revisionist". What a dumb thing to say.

And no, I believe in the context of WW2, the dropping of the bomb was the right thing to do. I do believe it ended the war more quickly, and saved many more lives that would have died if Operation Downfall had taken place. But I'm also a decent human being who 80+ years after the fact can feel compassion for the innocents on all sides who were needlessly killed.

I'm also not naive enough to believe the myth that the bombings were solely done to end the war…