US government documents admit that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nu...

‘US government documents admit that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nuclear attack was the first strike in Washington’s Cold War on the Soviet Union. Ben Norton reviews the historical record.’

  • AmarkuntheGatherer
    15·
    11 months ago

    Fascists are often cowards, I’m not saying they wouldn;t callously kill people during their retreat, rather that atrocities take planning and coordination, ergo time, time they wouldn’t have if they wanted to flee and they would have,

    If your logic held up there’d be little stopping them from committing these light-speed atrocoties between the second bomb and the surrender.

    • JucheBot1988
      6·
      11 months ago

      Plus, if they really wanted to go out in a blaze-of-glory Goetterdaemmerung situation, why would the atomic bombs have made any difference whatsoever? The argument seems to be “the Japanese government wanted to kill Japanese civilians, and the only way we Americans could stop them was by… killing Japanese civilians.”