This seems counter-intuitive to me. They were already fire bombed, blockaded, and starving- so we nuked them?
The facts you presented are true. No doubt in my mind. But when I look at this decision about using a nuclear weapon, I can't help but see it from the mindset of the growing military industrial complex. This might be their only chance to use the bomb on a live target with an active military and civilian population. They had 2 kinds of bombs, and they used one of each. The science involved was huge. And where future government contracts and big money come into the equation, morality and excuses for a lack thereof come into play. Even our international diplomacy and commercial ventures had an edge in the world after the bomb. It's like the old joke- What do you let an 800lb. gorilla do? Anything it wants.
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We could have continued the conventional bombing campaign and the blockade. Either way, the results would have been the same: dead civilians. But we chose to employ a potential war winner and demobilize as quickly as possible.
Not sure why this particular event is singled out in a war full of atrocities.
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MisterVeritis (06-04-2018)
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The firebombing of Tokyo killed over 100,000 Japanese civilians while the atomic bombs on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed 79,000 total. It could therefore be said that since the atomic bombs brought Japan to its knees in a way firebombing could not we actually saved Japanese lives as well. Japanese houses were made of paper and wood. Japan is densely populated. Any additional firebombing would have lead to incalculable loss of life.
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