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TiberiusB

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48. Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were war crimes. Period.

Sat Jul 20, 2019, 11:35 PM

Jul 2019

The intentional targeting of civilian populations isn't some hazy rule open to interpretation. We bombed Japan to demonstrate our power to Russia and to punish the Japanese. A land invasion would not have cost hundreds of thousands of lives, either. That's just massive hyperbole built up over the decades to justify the attacks. That would mean more soldiers would die in Japan than in the rest of WWII. Not likely. We even continued to bomb Japan for days after the Nagasaki strike. Think about this, if Japan was truly prepared to fight to the last man, woman, and child, why did the atomic bombs change anything? Why did Japan open negotiations for surrender before the bombings? Really, there is no way to spin the atomic bombing of Japan into some sort of humanitarian act.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/was-the-atomic-bomb-needed-hiroshima-and-moral-injury_b_59243192e4b0b28a33f62f60

https://www.theweek.com/articles/716819/atomic-bombings-hiroshima-nagasaki-war-crimes-full-stop

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