Hiroshima/Nagasaki Would you have dropped the bomb?

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Deacon Blue’s - He Looks Like Spencer Tracy now is the definitive song about the bomb being dropped

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rAuBfmTf9HU

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You wouldn’t do shit @Fitzy - You’re one big bleeding heart, On here banging on about gay rights, black rights, Tipp rights… You wouldn’t drop a good bomb in the jacks youre so harmless.

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Anybody who grew up in the 1980s will know the threat of a nuclear Armageddon hung over us every day. It was a cross we bore with the spirit of the Blitz.

Lads who were born later can come at this from a more detached and frankly hypotethical point of view but we fought and won the Cold War so any position we hold trumps your armchair position.

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This is true, pal. All those drills hiding under our desk - It was hard up actions like this that won the day. WE were ready.

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That’s possibly a fairer question and I’d say had more to do with the two parallel projects developing different types of nuclear weapons and validation of that. The only thing that can be argued is that the Japanese surrendered after the second one, not the first. Perhaps after the second one they presumed the US could keep on dropping these every couple of days.

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Two different types of bomb mate.

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I know that. If that’s the reason then there is zero moral justification for the second bomb, even if there ever was any for the first.

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Maybe they should have sent them a strongly worded letter instead, or signed a petition.

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If only social media had existed then - so much badness could have been prevented

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Seem like a normal day in Hawaii? You won’t believe what happened next.
Top 10 Japanese atrocities. Number 7 is shocking.

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Gas out mate, it’s funnier every time you use it. Way to nail issue as well, you really have a strong grasp of the question.

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@realtimewwii on Twitter is good for showing how real time news has no context and is next to useless

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I am da bomb.

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I would have. I’ve found the Japanese to be fierce annoying whenever I’ve encountered them in tourist areas.

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It was no worse than the fire-bombing of Tokyo, so in many ways it shouldn’t be divorced from the question of whether or not the carpet bombing of cities was justified.

The Americans probably wanted war in the Pacific but at the same time Japan was a lunatic state, entirely swept up in nationalist militarism, and it had made no effort to make peace on acceptable terms.

The hardline military elements still had huge influence, and while elements within the civilian authorities were inclined towards bringing the conflict to a close, the dominant paradigm was an all out defence that would cause massive Allied casualties and create peace on better terms.

Again that doesn’t mean incinerating a few hundred thousand people is justified, but the argument that the Japanese were about to surrender doesn’t have a basis in historical fact to the best of my knowledge.

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Who isn’t, pal?

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The Costa Ricans

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I’ve never met one I liked…

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This Ulterior Motive cunt can’t be for real, what an absolute clown.

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Russian roowalette

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