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(17,235 posts)Not to worry. We have a stable genius with his puny finger on the bigger button.
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)Might as well send a thank you note to Putin for his success in the last election.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Fact: Only country to drop nuclear weapons on civilians is America....which was before Putin was born!
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)...or any other nefarious source. So long as you like what they have to say, what's the harm in sending traffic their way?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)when it is pointed out they slaughtered hundreds of thousands of folks with two nuclear bombs.
What is the error or misinformation?
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)Fred Sanders
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(36,814 posts)Lokilooney
(322 posts)The implication it was to "test" the bomb, that's just tinfoil hattery. Also people seem to ignore the fact that after Hiroshima they were asked to surrender or face more like attacks...Japan refused. Then the is Russia, who just declared war on Japan and started the invasion into Japanese held Manchuria, that might have been a reason we didn't need to drop a 3rd bomb.
Deacon Blue
(252 posts)Millions of gallons of ink have been spent debating this one, a question particularly unsuitable for this small-talk (no offense) forum. Many Very Serious People have opined about the use of the Bomb and whether it ended the war, pro and con. But consider that we fire-bombed most of urban Japan without much hand-wringing, and a sense that they were getting what they deserved after Nanking, Pearl Harbor, Bataan, Manila etc. We were not imminently threatening the Home Islands with invasion; the Japanese may have been more worried about Russian occupation. Despite his promise to enter the Pacific War as soon as things had been settled in Europe, Stalin took no action for 3 months, at which time he launched a large offensive against Japanese forces in Manchuria the same day we successfully detonated our third nuclear weapon (Trinity was the first, mid-July 1945). Message was to Stalin as well as the Japanese War Cabinet: we have it, it works every time we use it, theyre rolling off the production line just as quickly as the B-29s which delivered them.
But the narrative from every GI was that the Bomb saved their lives, and the lives of millions of Japanese citizens. May be...