saw a post saying the hiroshima bomb was necessary to end the war, feel again obliged to point out that it was not. what they actually mean to say is 'to end the war with japan accepting an unconditional surrender,' something which is also not true but at least more arguable
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They also thought an uprising by domestic communists was a high possibility.
Keeping the emperor intact was a top priority.
Saving lives in an invasion is just trash.
Stopping WW3... I disagree but given us intelligence of the time it's a valid discussion to be had
Argh.
Practically everyone, even people who know a lot of the surface level history, believes WW2 was a struggle between good & evil when in reality it was just another imperial war between several empires of varying shades of cartoonish villainy
Therefore US involvement in the war was a direct result of its imperialism
Not saying it was necessary, but every general is also a politician and the more stars they have, the more they have to politic.
One of the most horrific things I've ever heard.
But, at the time, was it not the clearest way to ensure victory for the Allied forces?
And without it… what losses should the US have been willing to sustain in order to spare the citizens of Japan?
This is a genuine question
The clearest way to ensure victory was to make an official offer to Japan along the lines of "surrender and you'll get to keep the emperor and home islands", and their conditional surrender would have meant no more lives lost.
boom pow kaboom so fkn sick bro like come on it’s worth a few hundred thousand deaths
Ostensibly rational, non-dogmatic and totally open minded people who spout the it-was-necessary dogma and turn aggressive if you dare suggest the dogma is false.
Identical to Israel-has-a-right-to-defend-itself thought terminating rhetoric
It just worries me that the world seems to have largely accepted the German and Japanese telling of their WW2 history.
And Japan “We are victims of the atomic bombs”
Both are not completely wrong of course, but they also hide how much suffering was committed by them and how much many Nazis still were influential in Germany after WW2.
Didn't know you had a video on this, so THERE'S a chunk of my week I'll need to find some low impact task to occupy the ol' second screen.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima