75th anniversary of atomic bombs being dropped

Well technically we're a few days late and one day early. The bombs were dropped in 1945, August 6th and 9th.

No other country has ever attacked someone with an atomic bomb.

The total dead is estimated at over 200k.

The thing is though Surt, The Manhattan project had German, Hungarian, American and British scientists at its core and Roosevelt liased with the other nations fighting the war in the Pacific as to when the bomb was dropped, America did what it and the allies had to in order to save their own soldiers. It was sad, but imo justified.

I suppose in a way it did save soldiers, but not from the Japanese. This sent a message to Russia. We then entered a cold war instead of something else.

Originally posted by Surtur
I suppose in a way it did save soldiers, but not from the Japanese. This sent a message to Russia. We then entered a cold war instead of something else.

Yes we killed hundreds of thousands cuz Russia.

And thank god the world has learned from their Russian hysteria, right?

Originally posted by Surtur
Well technically we're a few days late and one day early. The bombs were dropped in 1945, August 6th and 9th.

No other country has ever attacked someone with an atomic bomb.

The total dead is estimated at over 200k.

Let's hope it never has to come to that again.

Originally posted by Surtur
I suppose in a way it did save soldiers, but not from the Japanese. This sent a message to Russia. We then entered a cold war instead of something else.

Actually, it did save many of our soldiers from dying at the hands of the Japs. If we hadn't used the bomb, we would've probably lost hundreds of thousands of men in a ground invasion.

I suppose another option would've been a blockade of Japan but that would've taken a lot longer to see results and the Japanese still had ships and planes which would've made it difficult anyway.

I still believe the bombs were the best course of action in that situation. I'm just glad we got that tech before the japs or germans did.

Look at this racist using WWII era racial slurs. 👇

Yeah. He needs to upgrade to the WWIII era ones

I don't understand why they targeted civilian populations rather than army or navy bases.

Two nukes weren't enough.

Originally posted by walshy
I don't understand why they targeted civilian populations rather than army or navy bases.

Teh lulz

Justifying killing a couple hundred thousand civilians is a tough sell, but I get why they did it.

Originally posted by walshy
I don't understand why they targeted civilian populations rather than army or navy bases.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also military targets. Both were places of great military significance for Japan.

Originally posted by walshy
I don't understand why they targeted civilian populations rather than army or navy bases.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Teh lulz

^thinks it's funny that hundreds of thousands of people were killed in the bombings. Just the sort of callous reply I'd expect from a shitty UK'er.

Originally posted by NemeBro
America is evil.

And a shithole.

Originally posted by ares834
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also military targets. Both were places of great military significance for Japan.

Correct, but some people don't learn history very well.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
And a shithole.

^lives in a shithole while calling another country a shithole lol.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
And a shithole.

America has bought into a type of individualism and hyper capitalism that has led to immense inequality, which means that the US has a lot of places that are as bad or worse than poor parts of third world countries, while also having wonderful places for the well off. And of course it has wonderful nature, truly a beautiful place.