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In reply to the discussion: Every year, I see the same thing re Hiroshima and Nagasaki [View all]joshcryer
(62,269 posts)I was taught about them as I grew up and they are widely detailed.
Sadly, Japan still has reluctance teaching of its war crimes.
This is in contrast to Germany who makes it clear that the holocaust existed and drives the point home admirably.
If a state commits war crimes it is necessary for that state to educate its citizens on those crimes so that those citizens will not be willing to commit them on that scale again. Everyone posting about the bomb is well educated on its destructive power and I don't know of anyone who thinks that they're a particularly useful weapon to detonate outside of the context in which they were originally used. Indeed, War Tard makes a powerful argument as to why not using nukes is all they're good for.
All Empires fall. No Empire lasts forever. And when Empires fall they tend to do so loudly and reluctantly.