What's your opinion on the atomic bombs dropped on Japan?

What's your opinion on the atomic bombs dropped on Japan?

Complete virtual signaling to complain about one and not complain about the firebombing of tokyo

They were a meme weapon.

> "The atomic bomb was more than a weapon of terrible destruction; it was a psychological weapon." - Henry L. Stimson

it was the right move. It proved that violence really does work. They turned into one of the the most docile and polite races overnight

had to be done, unfortunately it spawned a generation of self hating americans.

Political weapon. Ultimately needed to prevent the Soviets from reaching Japan. Atleast from the American perspective.

>Ultimately needed to prevent the Soviets from reaching Japan. Atleast from the American perspective.
Yeah, that huge fleet that the Soviets had an all the trouble they were having securing the far less defended Kuril islands had them all worried about how the Soviets would attack Hokkaido.

I mean, at least be plausible, say you did it to keep the Soviets from attacking Korea and China outside of Manchuria. Attacking Japan itself is nonsense.

I don't know much about the firebombing of tokyo.

Justified and inevitable. The nuclear bomb was going to be used sooner or later, and it was an excellent demonstration of both the capability and danger of this new class of weapon. Ethics are wholly irrelevant

The firebombing ended up killing more civilians than either atomic bomb, yet the atomic bombs get all the attention

The timing of the nuke was to cucked the Soviets. While the Soviets had been amassing forces for their invasion, America straight out outdid them and swooped into do a complete victory for America, alone.

There's a reason why Japs/Russia are still technically at war as they do not have a formal peace treaty between the two.


Now this isn't to say there is only one single reason for why America dropped nuke on Japan, but rather this is one of the key reasons why America dropped nuke on Japan. To deter the rising Soviet threat from gaining influence/power over the pacific. The threat of Soviets existed along the WWII and the Americans knew of it, as well as the British and the Germans. Had the Germans not attacked western Europe, had they not killed the Jews in such fashion, Nazi Germans could very well have large support from the US/British.

Too many civilians were killed and neither side cared.

Fireworku tanoshi!

2 wasn't enough

People are only pissy about it because it was one bomb instead of thousands of tons of firebombs, and they want to have something to be pissy about.
Ultimately it was probably a good thing that saved lives from a pure, cold mathematical standpoints but who cares because of my feelings ;_;

we did what was needed.

the japanese were fucking brutal and were also terrifying because they showed no fear of death. also they had some fucked up plans for us, that luckily never took place.

would rather retards cry it was inhumane than not have had it dropped

Japanese are not human, they deserve nothing less than nukes. In fact, they deserve 100 more, because they're not whites like us.

They're the Dresden to Tokyo's Hamburg.

Like Hamburg, Tokyo got it far, far worse than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki did. Hamburg suffered the most devastating air raids of the war in Europe, and yet all people care about is Dresden thanks to shitty initial casualty estimates allowing people to sensationalize it.

And it's like that with the Atomic Bombings. The firebombing campaign was far more devastating than the nukes ever were, but people never complain about that. The Atomic Bombs just offer a nice big easy thing for people to complain about without really having to know anything about what they're talking about.

Had we firebombed those two cities, nobody would even know their names.

Nukes should never be used even if the attack was necessary, they are very destructive to the environment and I'd only use one on the kabba

>MUH CIVILIAN GENOCIDE TO PREVENT AMERICAN SOLDIER DEATHS

Completely unnecessary, all it did was to start a dick measuring contest when the money could have been used for further development of the soviet union and developing countries backed by the US.

They're such a fucking waste they're not even meant to be used. All it does is a big mess, murder of countless innocents, curses the land it blows upon, brings no tactical advantage whatsoever, whenever someone uses it, the rest of countries in the world will get pissy and start a new world war to fuck over whoever used it, and if th other country was participating in the dick contest, it will release all their nukes to wipe out the other dudes just because that's what the game is about.

The new way to wage war should be by assassinating politicians the most silent way possible, there's literally no fucking point in murdering the whole population of a city or a country anymore, since thanks to globalization and the internet we know every country is as shit as the other.

Dokaaan!!

please be memeing

By that logic we shouldn't treat diseases because it would hurt countless of poor bacteria who get the short stick in life, and only 1 puny human dies. Same shit about plagues of any kind.

There are lives that are more worthy than others, and as a matter of fact, a soldiers life isn't worth a shit, the whole point of being on the frontline is to be murdered. It's kind of amusing how through history a bunch of people gather thousands of idiots to kill for entertainment. A new ruined town or two barely makes a difference.

Why do you want a piece of nuked land? What's the point?

Like those retards who used gas on the WW1 and to this day we can't use the fields. For that matter they could have simply gotten comfy and wait for typhus to get rid of the opposing army.

They were a blast

Too few of them

deserved it

Fighting the war like a real man.

I agree.

Anybody ever think it was partially just to test it on real people,to see what would happen? Like the MOAB in Afghanistan. Or how Israel do weapons research on their captive populations. Or how the brits Tests nerve gas on aborigines.

You sound like a sociopath.

I think so.

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kek

It was arguably a war crime. LeMay pretty much admitted it himself, as well as McNamara. That being said, Japan committed far more war crimes than the US did during the war, both in pointless attacks on civilians and in their monstrous treatment of American POW's. Thus, dropping the nukes can viewed as justified retaliation.

t. Jap


Pax Atomica waits for no idiot to understand it.

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Do people think Hiroshima and Nagasaki are radioactive wastelands right now?

>>MUH CIVILIAN GENOCIDE TO PREVENT AMERICAN SOLDIER DEATHS
Except it saved the lives of millions of Japanese soldiers and civilians who would've fought the Americans and been killed if Operation Downfall occurred.

Why couldn´t the USN just siege Japan itself? Japan had hardly any air assets left, it had no naval assets left, they could have blokcaded and bombed it into oblivion

And you think that would have a death toll that wouldn't be measured in millions? Not to mention it leaves Japanese forces active in China, Malaya, Korea, any of the islands they still hold, etc.

Armchair faggot

They did. Look up operation starvation.

Unjustified
Should have just blockaded them and left them to die