Comments on: Hiroshima: Dropping the Bomb

By: Duuude

Duuude — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:10:32 +0000

Reminds me of a really bad joke: “What were the last words out of the mouth of Hiroshima’s Mayor?”

“WHAT THE F*** WAS THAT???”

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:09:22 +0000

We burned Hiroshima. And we sent a simple message. Surrender. Today. And six days later, we burned Nagasaki. And we sent a simple message. Surrender. Today. And the war ended.

By: Mike Firesmith

Mike Firesmith — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:11:02 +0000

Chris,

For my part, tell your father I said thanks.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:04:45 +0000

God forgive us, we burned a city. We had already won the war, with steel. But fighting our way into Tokyo would have cost thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of American lives. So we had to do it. No choice. No reasonable alternative. God forgive us.

My father worked on the Manhattan Project, and I am very proud of him. Nuclear weapons are monstorus weapons. But we had no choice. None at all.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:25:17 +0000

Brune – Don’t forget that the Japanese did not surrender after the Hiroshima bomb, so why do you think that they would have surrendered if it had been dropped in an unoccupied area?

By: Mike Firesmith

Mike Firesmith — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:37:17 +0000

Brune,

I’m pretty certain there were people inside the American military who simply did not care how many people died if it would keep us from having to invade Japan.

But I am uncertain if I agree, or disagree, with those people.

By: Brune

Brune — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:32:50 +0000

I think the bombing of a Hiroshima was unecessary, might have been better to bomb an unoccupied area in Japan to show just how much they can lose if they didn’t surrender. But history is history, can’t change it.

By: Mike Firesmith

Mike Firesmith — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:31:35 +0000

Ike,
You totally misunderstand the situation in world War Two, and war in general.

Japan’s plan to stop the invasion of their home islands included the use of civilians, and their industrial war effort ( as did our own) was made up almost entirely of non military personnel as far as production went.

You seem to be a lot more reactive than contemplative.

By: Ike Watersmith

Ike Watersmith — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:10:59 +0000

Oh, and Jules, the way I see it it’s one thing to kill soldiers in a military action (like in Pearl Harbor) and another completely different situation to nuke an entire city full of innocent people.

By: Ike Watersmith

Ike Watersmith — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:07:22 +0000

FOOCK YOU, dolphin and whale!