Thread 17901616

On this day exactly 80 years ago, the world's first use of a nuclear weapon in combat occurred. Now that the dust has settled, was it justified?

>>17901616 (OP)
After the Rape of Nanking the Japs honestly deserved worse. Their feet were never held to the fire like Germany despite committing war crimes of a comparable scale against respective civilian populations.

>>17901616 (OP)
Yes. They started and wanted total war, and they got it. Anything else is an exercise in mental acrobatics.

>>17901616 (OP)
Who cares? You don't know anything about Japanese history before 1980 aside from this one event. You're a 30 year old man who jerks off to cartoons.

No

You might as well be asking of using tanks in WWI was justified.
Or Machine Guns whemever those were invented.
Or rifles.
Or cannons.
Or swords.
Asking your enemy to hold anything back to defeat you (when you have never once done so, thereby making it certain your enemy will neither) is actually childish.

>>17901616 (OP)
This reminds me, why didn't Nolan plan the release of Oppenheimer two years later so it would line up with anniversary? Is he fucking stupid

>>17901616 (OP)
>Fuck around and find out.jpg

>>17901790
The issue isn't using it's the target you are using it on. If they launched a tactical nuke on some jap base nobody would say a thing

>>17901851
Wasn't Hirshima the headquarters of the army that was supposed to defend Kyushu against the coming Allied invasion? A supply and logistics base, and an industrian centre too.

>>17901851
If it was just some random base, it meant there would've been less (living) witnesses, and would've made it far easier for the Japanese government themselves to ignore or dismiss as just an aerial bombing, which the US had a very strong reason to believe they would've

>>17901616 (OP)
Anglos love murdering civilians, especially with bombing non military targets
>Corr bloimey if we didn't vaorise that town and murder all those women, children and the elderly we might've had to fight soldiers instead!
>>17901676
Not a fan of tranime but isn't the pleb tier knowledge of japs include samurai and ninjas just like pleb tier knowledge of chinese includes ming vases, kung fu, emperors and fu manchus?

Yes. It put an immediate end to the war, whilst simultaneously showing the world how dangerous atomic energy and Röntgen heated air can be when in contact with an ordinary urban setting.

>>17901616 (OP)
No. Anyone who defends killing civilians on a mass scale is either Jewish or spiritually Jewish.

so you're telling me that america nuked japan because they are whiny brats and got jealous that the soviet union was about to beat them to the punch?

>>17901865
The entire city of 10s of thousands of civilians was an army headquarter?