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Originally Posted by Spiderman
yeh i watched a similar thing a couple of weeks ago in the run up to the aniversary.
The biggest war crime of mass genocide ever perpetrated in humanity. Fascinating photos to look at, hopefully one day those who decided to tst their bomb on a largely civialian population will be brought to justice.
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Bit late, since they're dead. I think it would be a dull trial, and I think you are wrong.
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Originally Posted by timwilky
I had an uncle on the Burma railway, he did not come back. Sorry to have to say I think the use of the bomb was justified. Millions of allied troops would have been killed trying to force a surrender by conventional means
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I have read somewhere the US expected to lose nearly a million troops in an invasion of the Japanese home islands.
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Originally Posted by Milky Bar Kid
Shocking pictures. I cannot comprehend how that was justified, to wipe out a city full of civillians who had done nothing wrong other than be in the wrong country at the wrong time.
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The Japanese would have done the exact same to us, or to civilian populations at the end of a bayonet. They were not pleasant enemies. Savages beyond reason.
So, what would you have done? Continued the blockade, the conventional bombing? Starved a whole nation of civvies to death rather than incinerate one city.
Or not started a war in the first place, but if you believe that's possible then you don't understand people.