Did you make that up our being waiting on an opportunity to use it? Either damn man take the upvote. But that is cold.
Yes, I do like dark humour, and no, I just downloaded it lol
Dark humor can be more entertaining. This is one of them.
I wonder why the Oppenheimer movie release wasn’t postponed just a week to coincide with this date
Interestingly, it’s still debated if it was necessary to drop not one but two awful bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
More left-wing positions argue Japan was already on the brink of surrendering. Here is one publication summing it up pretty well m:
As General Dwight Eisenhower said, Japan was at that moment seeking some way to surrender with minimum loss of face, and “it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.”
Saving face meant for one part of the Japanese military to keep the Emporer untouched. On the other hand, the Japanese military, contrary to the Japanese government:
[…]wanted to keep not just the emperor but to avoid an Allied occupation, disarmament, and war crimes trials.[…] They were determined to fight a final, all-out “decisive battle” to bleed the United States invaders until the Americans sued for peace.
We can at least say, whether you agree with the necessity of the use of atomic bombs on Japan, that humankind never again should make use of an atomic bomb.
Here is a GIF to remember (and look up the NSFW version of it…
It is debated whether it was necessary, but the position that it was wrong is self-contradictory.
It assumes that the atomic bombs were not a huge factor in the decision to surrender, as they would surrender anyway due to conventional warfare (US bombing and USSR attacking and removing the best negotiating venue for a conditional surrender). Which might be true. But, at the same time it assumes that the nuclear bombs were somehow worse than the conventional bombing that has been going on. So the atomic bombs had to be both ineffectual and hugely damaging at the same time.
