EyelessInGaza
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the failure of humanity was that the Americans were not made to pay for what they did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
If Japan would have been conquered by the American army..surely they'd have not killed the innocents.It was mass extermination....the gravest human crime.
Nuclear warfare is abhorrent, but the story is more nuanced than that.
By 1945 the USA had brought Japan to its knees; it's island hopping strategy had bought it close to the mainland.
However the resistance offered by the Japanese on an island as small as Okinawa shocked the US.
Some 120,000 Japanese died resisting the US on an 12000 Km square island. Very few Japanese gave up or survived. The US lost 12000 killed, 40,000 wounded.
This was just one Island; the calculation was that conquering Japan would cost the Allies at least 1 million killed, not counting injured.
The Japanese government showed no signs of surrendering even though it was bloodied.
And hence the bomb.
BTW, the US firebombing of Japan killed more people than the nukes and was equally if not more abhorrent.