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In reply to the discussion: No Choice: Why Harry Truman Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan [View all]Goodheart
(5,321 posts)27. Our atomic bombs killed 40,000 to 50,000 innocent Koreans who were held in Japan as slaves.
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Here's a longer article that also talks about the secret talks with Stalin...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2018
#1
Over a million Japanese troops under arms in China at the time of the surrender, perfectly capable..
Marengo
Aug 2018
#31
Germany wasn't considered as a primary target as its defeat was expected to occur before before
Marengo
Aug 2018
#63
If Japan blockaded Vladivostok and destroyed some of the bridges and tunnels of the...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2018
#13
Our atomic bombs killed 40,000 to 50,000 innocent Koreans who were held in Japan as slaves.
Goodheart
Aug 2018
#27
The Japanese or Germans would have used atomic weapons if they had them before us.
BSdetect
Aug 2018
#38
Uh, in regards to Germany being "years away", you are wrong. Heavy water was already being produced.
tonyt53
Aug 2018
#127
It was a weapon we developed to fight WWII, no one else had one until long after WWII was in the
braddy
Aug 2018
#39
Fact is, we are the only country to have killed thousands of innocent people with a "special" bomb.
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#34
My dad was ONE of them. In the first US landing in the Pacific, and war effort ended at Iwo Jima.
tonyt53
Aug 2018
#129
Why do you believe the "bomb em" folks. I don't see how annihilating two important Japanese
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#67
War was over, we are only country to nuke anyone, we are racist, we bully the world now and
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#114
And you aren't willing to accept another narrative either. No, I got the point on Civil War and I
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#118
Not just us, I bet the Chinese, Brits, Filipinos, Aussies, New Zealand, Koreans, etc., etc., etc.,
braddy
Aug 2018
#43
Some folks might have taken to streets, probably same ones who'd vote for trump or bush.
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#55
"Use it" especially against Asians. We could have demonstrated it on a deserted island.
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#76
If Asian casualties are a marker, what about Imperial Japan's "Rape of Nanking," in 1937?
VOX
Aug 2018
#98
So are you saying we nuked innocent Japanese 8 years after Rape of Nanking as justified retribution?
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#99
No, I'm not saying that at all. The thread was implying that nukes were okay'd, because...Asians.
VOX
Aug 2018
#116
The Japanese were slaughtering innocent Chinese, Filipinos, Indonesians, etc until the very end.
hack89
Aug 2018
#120
They were defeated and surrounded, do a little reading including Eisenhower's view.
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#130
We appear stuck on this issue, just like your support of guns. The two are similar in many ways.
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#137
They surrendered after the Soviets declared war on Japan. Correlation or causation?
malchickiwick
Aug 2018
#45
Actually, they had offered terms of surrender before Hiroshima (via the Swiss).
malchickiwick
Aug 2018
#60
Japan chose not to end the war and vowed to fight to the death before the first
beachbum bob
Aug 2018
#52
It must be the first week in August: DU gets to refight the war none of us remembers personally
Hekate
Aug 2018
#97
I had long discussions with my parents, especially my Mom on this before they passed...
hlthe2b
Aug 2018
#107