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Posted by: I give tuggers
Posted by: The Random
Posted by: I give tuggers
Posted by: And Im Here Too
I hear Japan was planning to surrender before we dropped the second bomb, but we 'wanted to make sure' or some -blam!- like that.Yep.
It wasn't a "necessary evil" at all. And people have this idea that Japan would've never given up, which is far from true.
The reality is that the US bombing had more to do with flexing muscle and testing their new toy than ending the war.
Oh goodness, you don't really believe that do you? It's better than excepting whatever textbook explanation was given to me.
A real historian questions and evaluates, and doesn't just except whatever reasoning is given to them.
Besides, it's a piss poor excuse to say the only way to stop a country is to bomb them. Especially when they were considering conceding anyway.
I think most people just support the decision simply because we got to nuke somebody.