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Originally Posted by THEMASKEDRIDER
its one thing to seriously setup a process to properly communicate to people that we have a weapon that can seriously fuck them up, and they better get serious
or to just go through the motions
im serious that i cant believe some of you are not this compassionate, this could have been our neighborhoods, our sisters and mothers and wives, with just one little twist of destiny, we could have been in their shoes, and this was something that was preventable, one mans decision, a proper communication of how we can seriously fuck them up in a way they would understand may have saved 170,000 lives
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My Grandmother's entire family was slaughtered by the Nazis and my Grandfather (on the other side of the family tree) died in the South Pacific. Tens of millions of lives were lost on both sides, and many many more would have died if the US invaded the Japanese mainland. If the bombs weren't dropped and the US was forced to invade, the war would have dragged on another year and yet more millions of lives would have been lost.
People continue to question why the US nuked Japan. More people, innocent and otherwise, died in other large scale bombing raids. The bombing of Dresden in Germany is a classic example, as is the bombing of Tokyo.
The two nukes on Japan saved millions of lives on both sides.