The bombing of Hiroshima: A necesary measure or a racist war crime?

[Azadkashmir]

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

OF COURSE it was racist. Funny how the americans did that to the Japanese but not the Germans. I wonder why?........... ...........call it what you want, but the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a racial, genocidal war crime. As were the american war crimes against the Iraqis, Afghans etc.

 

[IceCold]

I once listened to the pilot of the bomber that was involved in the attack and he said he would do it all over again. I remember few years back saw one of their TV serials in which they showed nuclear attacks on Pakistan by the US. The US genocide in Japan, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan should put Hilter to shame, yet they consider themselves to be so called preservers of peace and freedom. The hypocrisy is really outstanding.

 

[Azadkashmir]

I once listened to the pilot of the bomber that was involved in the attack and he said he would do it all over again. I remember few years back saw one of their TV serials in which they showed nuclear attacks on Pakistan by the US. The US genocide in Japan, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan should put Hilter to shame, yet they consider themselves to be so called preservers of peace and freedom. The hypocrisy is really outstanding.

actually its worse american corporations built up german war machine ig farben etc and banks funded hitler to get palestine it was one big scam.

 

[Hit the Lights]

Does it matter at this point? The Japanese idolize America(n pop culture). Though, thinking about it now, the same could be said for the Bollywood lovers in Pakistan.

 

[SecularNationalist]

OF COURSE it was racist. Funny how the americans did that to the Japanese but not the Germans. I wonder why?........... ...........call it what you want, but the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a racial, genocidal war crime. As were the american war crimes against the Iraqis, Afghans etc.

Because unlike the Germans the Japanese were not ready to surrender.

 

[cloud4000]

Interesting how the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan is considered racist as if this racism was a one-sided affair. Ask the people who suffered from Japanese occupation how the Japanese treated them. I assure you it was not happy times.

Racism aside, the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan was not taken lightly. Considering how brutally the Japanese fought the US at every turn, and it got more brutal as the fighting approached Japan’s home islands, it was better of two evils. It probably saved more lives than a bloody conventional battle would have.

 

[Get Ya Wig Split]

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[Cookie Monster]

OF COURSE it was racist. Funny how the americans did that to the Japanese but not the Germans. I wonder why?........... ...........call it what you want, but the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a racial, genocidal war crime. As were the american war crimes against the Iraqis, Afghans etc.

The war with Japan was more spread out...
...they literally had to take it island by island...which would normally favor the defenders who can be well dug in on strategically favorable areas. The attacking side would suffer lots of casualties even in the best of circumstances.

Although...I agree that nukes shouldn't have been used(for different reasons) but based on what the Japanese did...I would say they kinda had it coming. If u do inhumane things...and then u are paid in the same coin...don't expect ppl to feel sorry for u.

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

Because unlike the Germans the Japanese were not ready to surrender.

WRONG!!!!!!!..........You are FACTUALLY INCORRECT:

The War Was Won Before Hiroshima—And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It

Seventy years after the bombing, will Americans face the brutal truth?

www.thenation.com

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

The war with Japan was more spread out...
...they literally had to take it island by island...which would normally favor the defenders who can be well dug in on strategically favorable areas. The attacking side would suffer lots of casualties even in the best of circumstances.

Although...I agree that nukes shouldn't have been used(for different reasons) but based on what the Japanese did...I would say they kinda had it coming. If u do inhumane things...and then u are paid in the same coin...don't expect ppl to feel sorry for u.

True. But then why weren't the Germans nuked too? If the Japanese were White Europeans, they would have been spared.

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

Does it matter at this point? The Japanese idolize America(n pop culture). Though, thinking about it now, the same could be said for the Bollywood lovers in Pakistan.

Was in Pakistan in January. Unlike 1970s to 2000s, bollywoodism is virtually dead in Pakistan now.

 

[dbc]

Because unlike the Germans the Japanese were not ready to surrender.

Well at least one bright spark amongst the dullards that frequent PDF. Yes for the rest, read up on shudan jiketsu - compulsory mass suicide. . Can you believe the emperor telling his loyal subjects to end their lives - and people did as instructed without question.

The nuclear bombs perhaps saved the rest of Japan from a similar fate.

.... and was not a battle to protect the people (kokumin) of the mainland. It was a preliminary battle before eventually taking the entire nation (kokumin subete) to death along with the Emperor.


“They will not surrender”

In the spring of 1944, American troops in Saipan bore witness to a “banzai” charge, where nearly 4,000 Japanese soldiers charged American troops and fought to their death. They were following the last orders of their commander, Lieutenant General Yoshisugu Saito, who had called for this all-out surprise attack in the honor of the Emperor before committing ritual suicide. When the American troops entered Saipan, they witnessed a different atrocity as they saw women grabbing children and jumping from cliffs rather than submitting to capture by the American troops.

As America pushed forward, island by island, troops continued to bear witness to Japanese soldiers and civilians taking their own lives. Okinawa was a particularly hellish scene as nearly one-third of the island population died. Among these were Koreans who had been forcibly migrated from annexed Korea to Japanese islands to be press-ganged as laborers and comfort women. While the Japanese government states there was “military involvement” in these suicides, survivors attest to a compulsory mass suicide, or shudan jiketsu. https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/japanese-mass-suicides

Compulsory Mass Suicide, the Battle of Okinawa, and Japan's Textbook Controversy - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

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[Beast]

Interesting how the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan is considered racist as if this racism was a one-sided affair. Ask the people who suffered from Japanese occupation how the Japanese treated them. I assure you it was not happy times.

Racism aside, the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan was not taken lightly. Considering how brutally the Japanese fought the US at every turn, and it got more brutal as the fighting approached Japan’s home islands, it was better of two evils. It probably saved more lives than a bloody conventional battle would have.

I agree with your statement once. Germans surrender in May 1945 and obviously too late to eat the atomic bomb.

Japanese are very stubborn even US has the air and sea domination. They are no where even near to take Tokyo. IJA were ready to monbolise the whole japan civilian population to fight to the very last men. They will ask kids to hide grenade, preganant woman strip with bombs to kamikaze to attack US forces once they landed.

By dropping A bomb, it killed the will of Japan and hardened Hirohito to accept surrender. Save those kids and pregnant woman used as kamikazi bomb.

 

[Figaro]

OF COURSE it was racist. Funny how the americans did that to the Japanese but not the Germans. I wonder why?........... ...........call it what you want, but the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a racial, genocidal war crime. As were the american war crimes against the Iraqis, Afghans etc.

Because the atomic bomb was not available before Germany's surrender. I hope you know the first atomic bomb test, the Trinity test, was conducted in mid July 1945, a full month and a half after Germany's capitulation. Please do some basic research before saying this is a racist war crime. The US warned Japan on three different occasions about this and each time they were dismissed.

True. But then why weren't the Germans nuked too? If the Japanese were White Europeans, they would have been spared.

Please look up when the first atomic bomb test occurred. Unless the US could time travel back, there is simply no way the atomic bomb could have been used against Germany. Even Oppenheimer, the creator of the bomb, noted the primary target had been Germany.

Trinity (nuclear test) - Wikipedia

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