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For good or bad, I think it has reshaped how and why we go to war. Major conflicts like Napoleon, WW1 and WW2 simply can't happen anymore.
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For good or bad, I think it has reshaped how and why we go to war. Major conflicts like Napoleon, WW1 and WW2 simply can't happen anymore.
Very good point.
Watch for the post WW2 conflicts.
It's my opinion that the bombs did nothing. It was merely a show of strength by Truman to enforce their standing in the international community, more so to scare the Russians. Dropping the bombs had absolutely nothing to do with the war and did little to advance American efforts. It was merely a revenge attack for Pearl Harbour, on top of the showing off of their new weapon. Following their dropping, the Japanese did not relent, or change their lines of attack.Seventy years on, is it any clearer whether the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to end the war?
Over the years, various archives are newly available - is there any new evidence either way?
And was Gen McArthur ahead of his time wanting to use nukes in the Korean war?
what a great video
two points leap out.....rich countries don't like going to war. middle class simply prefer watching sport on the weekend than sitting in trenches dying for their nation.
the other is russia has a history of victory at any price. ISIS should take note and their fanaticism is a competitive advantage against the west but it is no match for russia.
Are you sure about that?For good or bad, I think it has reshaped how and why we go to war. Major conflicts like Napoleon, WW1 and WW2 simply can't happen anymore.
Are you sure about that?
Although the American propaganda would suggest the Americans won WW2, it was really the Russians, both in Europe and in Japan.
Not at all true. The US no doubt saved Australia being properly invaded, but the Russians would have most likely have defeated Japan without America dropping two nuclear bombs and killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. And it was the Russians that ultimately defeated Hitler and the German Army.Thanks to the victory at Midway by the US Australia was probably spared an intense military campaign and potential invasion of its northern borders.
If the US fleet is decimated in that battle Japan it makes a big difference to the war in the Pacific.
Without the US entering the war the Axis powers would not have been defeated.
http://collectivelyconscious.net/ar...apan-it-was-not-to-end-the-war-or-save-lives/The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children
The way the Japanese government, under their grandson of a war criminal Prime Minister, carry on about their WWII crimes it's impossible to feel sympathy.
Impossible to feel sympathy for the civilians killed in the bombings?
As to the earlier point that the Japanese wouldn't have surrendered without using nukes; the main sticking point in the negotiations was regarding the Emperor staying in power. The Americans did in fact put a provision in the 'unconditional' treaty stating that the Emperor could stay on, however it was buried under so much ambiguous wording that the Japanese completely missed it. The Japanese had no illusions about keeping Korea/Manchuria; the Soviets would have taken them regardless, and without much trouble.
On top of all that, even Eisenhower stated that the nukes weren't justifiable. Though as Malifice rightly points out the conventional bombing over the long run cost far more lives.
In the end the only true "justification"(again as stated before) is that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were basically a 'back off' message to the Soviets.
Japan got off lightly for WWII
Totally agree. The Japanese emperor should of got the same treatment as Mussolini and been hung from a tree by a meat hook.Japan got off lightly for WWII
They suffered far less than them German people. What the Japanese did in their occupied territories was worse than anything the Germans did, yet we don't have it drummed into us at every turn, most going through school now would have no idea about what they did.Japan the country? Sure. The Japanese people? Nope.
Japan the country? Sure. The Japanese people? Nope.
Unit 731 might be the one you're thinking of? Seriously ****** up s**t.What was the name of that "hospital" where the Japanese carried out horrendous experiments?
L57 or something?
I couldn't sleep after watching them deep freeze a guys arm and then hit it with a hammer. It shattered like glass and the doctors were laughing at the guys reaction.
People can be so cruel
Unit 731 might be the one you're thinking of? Seriously ****** up s**t.
Yep, and the Yanks recruited the scientists post war.
One of the reasons I visited Harbin in 1986.
I also went to Yasukuni Shrine to pay my respects to the Kamikazes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasukuni_Shrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_Yasukuni_Shrine
I feel the same sympathy for them as they felt for the people their country murdered, raped and mutilated and forced to do degenerate acts
Your lot did the same to a people I regard as brothers and sisters.
People are going on about unit 731 and its experiments. they were horrible. The japs used to chain Chinese to poles certain distances from dropping chemical and biological weapons. Then measure the results. The americans pardoned the chief scientists and gave them homes and jobs. Even worse was what the British did deliberately exposing aboriginals to the fallout of nuclear detonations, then holding them at gun point to measure the results. We are told our soldiers fought to stop that very s**t happening. These same soldiers, did the same s**t themselves.