07-07-2009, 09:13 PM
Maybe the exhibit has changed since you were there. Now, at least, there are several times where the Hiroshima museum says "We were a military base, and we sent our troops to be part of this specific action, thus, in many ways, we were a legitimate military target." A good example is Nanking, which the museum does talk about. Hiroshima troops were involved in that massacre. Another is Okinawa, as mentioned above.
Now obviously there is a sense, especially during the portion dedicated to the children, that the bomb killed indiscriminately and took the lives of mostly civilians, but I thought the museum did a good job of blaming all sides equally in the run up to the dropping of the bomb. My personal beliefs didn't change, but it did make the reasons I have my beliefs that much more depressing.
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