The Real Reason We Bombed Japan

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106. I am originally from Japan and here is my input.

When I was in college in Ohio, my Chemist professor was running an independent seminar about atomic bomb.
When he was young, he participated Manhattan project. He told us that was how he decided to start his seminar.

The problem of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing is two-fold.
First of all, nobody knew how atrocious the effect of atomic bombing would be. In fact, quite a few participants of Manhattan projects later suffered and some died from radiation poisoning. Unlike usual bombing, in addition to 80k dies instantly from Hiroshima bombing, additional 60k-100k died from the radiation poisoning over years. There are also 2nd generation sufferers
as well.

In fact, if you look at the worst bombing strictly from the number of death, Tokyo bombing on March 9th 1945, killed around 130k.

The second issue is about Nagasaki bombing. Are you aware of the fact that the bomb used for Nagasaki was different from
the one for Hiroshima. This is actually what my Chemistry professor told me. He believe that Nagasaki bombing was more of
the experiment than anything. Unfortunately, this is quite problematic even for people who supports the justification of Hiroshima.

Nagasaki bombing , I believe, was unnecessary.

By the way, I greatly appreciate President Obama's visit and his historic speech. I also want all American to understand that vast majority of Japanese never wanted any 'apology or likes' from Americans regarding atomic bomb.

Majority of Japanese who either experienced the last war or directly know someone who did, were very ashamed of Japanese expansion war.

I you know anything about Japanese history and culture, we invaded out only twice in relatively long history. Civil wars in Japan had been relatively bloodless compared to the rest of the world.

Finally, even the majority of generation who does not know the last war support our Peace constitution.

Hertopos