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Originally Posted by duo797
War isn't a pretty thing, and I'm not going to say the A-bombs were justified (different books and different people have different opinions on whether or not they were necessary to end the war, and I'm not asking for anyone to tell me whether or not they think they were, because I don't care for an internet opinion on this matter), but saying your pay back is unfair. Just like how you argue the japanese public can't be blamed, it's hardly fair to blame the american public for the a-bomb. One more thing, I'm fairly certain you can't carpet bomb with nuclear weapons just by the sheer radius and force of their explosions. Edit: I don't want to get snippy, I'll just cut this.
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Ok, yeah, I sort of over-reacted on that one. But people are still happily bashing Japan over Pearl Harbor and totally forgetting the horror that ended that war. Now it WAS our emperor that said he would never surrender and the beaches would run red with the blood of every Japanese soldier and citizen before it was over. The atomics killed a lot less than a frontal assault would have but the absolute horror of the atomics...just to see one pop was enough to cause Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic age" to quote in horror from the Bhagavad- Gita, "I have become death, the destroyer of worlds." Can you imagine if your state, probably about the size of Japan, had two atomics dropped on it?