The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Yes, the A-bomb needed to be dropped. It saved lives in the long run and it ended the war. Obama does not speak for all Americans with his apologies...no apologies are necessary.
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I believe for a nation to remain on the moral high ground, it's military must protect the country but remain purely on the defense.
I'm no military strategist, and I'm well aware Japan did successfully start to push through the United States defenses (Pearl Harbor and such), but surely there must be some way, some type of method or strategy, that could be implemented to ensure a stronger defense. Hopefully, such a thing exists.
Otherwise, invading enemy soil yourself makes you no better than they.
Yes, I'm aware of just how gruesome the Japanese were during WWII, I've read all sorts of personal accounts from captured P.O.W.'s and such, but the minute you set foot onto the other nation's land and take the fight from your country to theirs, then that's just fighting fire with fire and an act of vengeance.
Was it 'justified'? Sure.
Does it simply equalize the moral integrity of both sides for me? Yes.
I've seen similar arguments today against the U.S. precense in Afghanistan, which I am also against.
I do believe 9/11 was a government-conducted conspiracy, but 9/11 aside, Paris ISIS attacks, etc. aside, does the U.S. bombing civilian areas in the middle-east and/or conquering land and building oil rigs and military bases in its place make them any less terrorists than Al Qaeda?
If there is much of anything new about the plan, it’s the public acknowledgement of what some (including TomDispatch) have long suspected: Despite years of denials about the existence of any “permanent bases” in the Greater Middle East or desire for the same, the military intends to maintain a collection of bases in the region for decades, if not generations, to come.
http://fpif.org/u-s-empire-bases-middle ... one-safer/
...It might be tempting to argue that the escalating involvement of the United States and its history of militarism and military engagement in the Gulf region have provided a kind of security for the region. After all, oil has continued to flow, the network of oil producers has remained the same, and thus the primary interests of the United States in the region have been served. But three decades of war belie this argument. War is not tantamount to security, stability, or peace. Even in the periods between wars in the region the violence carried out by regimes against their own subjects makes clear that peace is not always peaceful. The cost has been high for the United States and especially for people who live in the Middle East. In thirty years of war, hundreds of thousands have died excruciating and violent deaths. Poverty, environmental disaster, torture, and wretched living conditions haunt the lives of many in Iraq, Iran, and elsewhere in the region....
http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/99/1/208.full
Non-nuclear explosions DO produce the kind of shaking and rattling that nuclear explosions do when detonated on the ground. What you are talking about is the *shock wave* produced by the detonation(where heated gases travel at supersonic speed).
Exhibit A, Dresden before:

Exhibit B, Dresden after:

Exhibit C, Hiroshima before:

Exhibit D, Hiroshima after:

So you can cleary see the difference in effects between the firebombing of Dresden and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in terms of the blasts. Most of the building in Dresden have their brick/stone walls still standing and their foundations in place.
Another thing you should keep in mind is that the Hiroshima bombing was an AIRBURST detonated at an altitude of 500 feet. If it had struck the ground before exploding there would be more substantial shock wave damage and seismic wave propagation.
What Ban-Dodger says though, I believe has some degree of truth to it.
History is reported by the victors, and it's already been massively debunked that the government has propoganda to hide or remove information that may make the public fear or hate them.
For christ's sake, even the original bombings were censored or hidden from the American people for some time.
A member of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, Lieutenant Daniel McGovern, used a film crew to document the results in early 1946.[230] The film crew's work resulted in a three-hour documentary entitled The Effects of the Atomic Bombs Against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The documentary included images from hospitals showing the human effects of the bomb; it showed burned out buildings and cars, and rows of skulls and bones on the ground. It was classified "secret" for the next 22 years.[231] During this time in America, it was a common practice for editors to keep graphic images of death out of films, magazines, and newspapers.[232] The total of 90,000 ft (27,000 m) of film shot by McGovern's cameramen had not been fully aired as of 2009. According to Greg Mitchell, with the 2004 documentary film Original Child Bomb, a small part of that footage managed to reach part of the American public "in the unflinching and powerful form its creators intended".[230]
Motion picture company Nippon Eigasha started sending cameramen to Nagasaki and Hiroshima in September 1945. On October 24, 1945, a U.S. military policeman stopped a Nippon Eigasha cameraman from continuing to film in Nagasaki. All Nippon Eigasha's reels were then confiscated by the American authorities. These reels were in turn requested by the Japanese government, declassified, and saved from oblivion. Some black-and-white motion pictures were released and shown for the first time to Japanese and American audiences in the years from 1968 to 1970.[230] The public release of film footage of the city post attack, and some research about the human effects of the attack, was restricted during the occupation of Japan, and much of this information was censored until the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951, restoring control to the Japanese.[233]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bo ... censorship
They only first saw it in 1968, aka 23 years later.
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Part of the reason for Japan targeting Pearl Harbour was because Japan was provoked by how The United States cut off oil-supplies to Japan which was considered to be a direct-attack on the Japanese-Economy (and thus was starting to cause starvation to its people).
History is reported by the victors, and it's already been massively debunked that the government has propoganda to hide or remove information that may make the public fear or hate them.
For christ's sake, even the original bombings were censored or hidden from the American people for some time.
Much as I may be a Tin-Foil Hat-Wearing Lunatic Insane So-Called Conspiracy Theorist Nutter who has gone off the Deep-End of any particular Rabbit-Hole, I know well-enough to question what I believe or come across, knowing that what I believe today may change tomorrow, but I do have to disregard certain claims of certain theories. Namely when anything has been claimed to be non-existent. I listened recently to a Remote-Viewing session of the target (Remote-View the Incident of Hiroshima), and the session did indeed describe some launching of some object directed at some target, dropped from some kind of aerial-device like perhaps an air-plane, with something like three or so men between their 20s and 40s, running something of a mission, with feelings that they felt what they were doing was necessary, and also mixed with feelings of some kind of pay-back for something, like a form of revenge.
The main reason I cannot accept claims that X or Y does not exist is due to my back-ground in having thoroughly studied and researched the subject of para-psychology (very strong cases were presented for the existence of various phenomenon that I used to think were non-existent or impossible or already de-bunked). Atomic-Bombs probably exist and Nuclear-Weapons probably exist also, but there are also other things that exist of which their existence seems to be suppressed, and Remote-Viewing Sessions of 9/11 seem to indicate and be on-target with much of what Dr. Judy Woods describes as Directed Energy Weapons... I actually came up with some similar ideas many years ago as to how I would go about destroying the entire planet. The entire world can actually be made to explode once the infra-structure has been set up to pull it off (and the infrastructure available to destroy everything on the planet has actually been in place since around the year 2000 by the way).
Exhibit A, Dresden before:

Exhibit B, Dresden after:

Exhibit C, Hiroshima before:

Exhibit D, Hiroshima after:

So you can cleary see the difference in effects between the firebombing of Dresden and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in terms of the blasts. Most of the building in Dresden have their brick/stone walls still standing and their foundations in place.
Another thing you should keep in mind is that the Hiroshima bombing was an AIRBURST detonated at an altitude of 500 feet. If it had struck the ground before exploding there would be more substantial shock wave damage and seismic wave propagation.
Very well, I appreciate the efforts to bring this information to my paradigm, but now I will need some time to thoroughly study the images/photographs to see what kinds of other additional questions might come to mind...
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Something worth adding perhaps about the defense-only mentality. If a particular leadership goes on the attack, it seems logical that any defensive measures would include deposing that leadership. That especially holds true when they have a propaganda machine of the caliber that inspires its citizenry to fly fighter jets into carriers or to jump off of ledges into the ocean if they see enemy troops coming through. That seems to put us back, by necessity, to either A-bomb or ground invasion.
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Pure defence will never work, and be exhausting to implement. All the attacker has to do is be patient and wait for an opening. Eventually a weakness to exploit will appear.
Imagine if Person A wants to kill Person B and Person B knows this but will only defend themselves if Person A attacks. If Person A knows this he can openly stalk Person B, which would be tremendously stressful and draining for Person B, then strike when the moment is right. And if the attack fails all he has to do is get away from Person B and he can try again at his leisure. I think this compares well to a purely defensive country.
It's not an act of vengeance if it's done to protect. Killing enemies over there before they're killing us over here is protecting. Person B attacking Person A on sight or even hunting down Person A wouldn't be vengeance it would be to protect himself.
The US did not start the war against Japan, they did that by their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese Empire were the Nazis of Asia, they murdered millions of civilians in their occupied territories in China, Korea, and elsewhere. They believed in a racial supremacist ideal that the Japanese were descendants of the gods. They wanted to inflict as many casualties as they could on the US in hopes that they'd be able to hold on their empire abroad. It wasn't an offensive war by the Americans anymore than it was an offensive war against the Nazis who occupied Europe.
The Japanese Empire isn't thought of as bad as the Nazis as most Americans don't relate to the occupation and enslavement of Asian peoples by the Japanese the same way they did with Nazis in Europe but what they did is not forgotten in China or Korea or anywhere else and they don't apologize for what they did one bit. Did the Nazis need defeating? Absolutely! So did the Japanese Empire who were every bit as brutal.

look up the Rape of Nanking
the Japanese had they been able to advance unimpeded would of taken Australia
they were a threat on par with the Nazis in Europe and did crimes just as unspeakable
it was a lot more than just revenge for their dastardly act of war at Pearl Harbor
Imperial Japan had to be destroyed
History is reported by the victors, and it's already been massively debunked that the government has propoganda to hide or remove information that may make the public fear or hate them.
History is indeed reported by the victors, but in the case of these bombings the fact that they are so controversial shows that it if the bombings were a lie then it may have not been the best one to tell. Being the first and only nation to use atomic bombs in war is not great for America's reputation, and it's not striking fear into anyone now after treaties have been signed to prohibit the use of nuclear weapons in war. Right now there are pushes to dismantle nuclear weapons to reduce the probability and impact of a global nuclear war which is something that many people are scared of but not in a way that benefits anyone.
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The US would have loved for Japan to have surrendered but they didn't show any intention of doing so.
If the war had gone on, far more would have died on both sides. Not only would far more Japanese have died defending Japan from an invasion, many more people would have died in the countries they had taken over.
Some people point out that Japan had made some overtures to surrendering to the Soviet Union. That "surrender" would not have been unconditional and Japan would have kept their territories under the terms they sought. In other words, the murder of innocent civilians in many different countries would have continued. Of course, the US would never have recognized that surrender as valid so that effort to avoid responsibility would have failed miserably.
Supposedly, after the second bomb and Japan slow to respond, a third bomb was started on the way over to hit another city. Fortunately for the Japanese, they did surrender before it got very far.
Supposedly, after the second bomb and Japan slow to respond, a third bomb was started on the way over to hit another city. Fortunately for the Japanese, they did surrender before it got very far.
they basically could make 3 a month and were prepared to keep dropping them until Japan surrendered
Kokura was the backup for Little Boy and the primary target for Fat Man but cloud coverage prevented them from having a clear visual so they went with their backup Nagasaki.
This provides a good overview of the debate, if you want to see what has been the major arguments on both sides:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_ov ... d_Nagasaki
A lot of the "oppose" arguments I have never seen before, while I've seen all of the "support" arguments, except for the last one. It's interesting that where I'm at, having grown up in the U.S., I never saw very many of those "oppose" arguments.
I find this argument from Indian jurist Radhabinod Pal, one of the judges at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, to be compelling. In this argument, he references a letter written by Kaiser Wilhelm II in World War I, where the Kaiser justifies the slaughter of civilians to pressure the Allies to surrender:
This is quoted in the same Wikipedia article.
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