56% of Americans still believe Hiroshima bombing was justified – poll

[Oldman1]

USA can drop 10 bombs on the summit of mount Fuji. The Japan sure get frighten into balls drop and they will surrender. Or USA can bomb non population center or villages. (Just like what they are doing in Nagasaki)

This Hiroshima bombing is a deliberate attempt to murder civilian.

The U.S. didn't have 10 bombs at the time. And Japan would think it was propaganda if we dropped one on the mountain.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Germany was too close to the Western European heartland, unlike four small isolated islands like Japan, so I don't think they gonna nuke it even it refused to surrender.

The US maybe have the desire to nuke Russia, but definitely not Germany, a Western European nation.

So let me get this straight...if Nazi Germany started dropping atom bombs ( German nuclear weapon project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia warned by Einstein in 1939 with this letter to Roosevelt -> Einstein–Szilárd letter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia which led to resources being gathered in 1939 to start the Manhattan Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia which was BEFORE Japan bombed Pearl Harbor) on the US, Britain, and Russia...we were going to just sit there and take it .....because Germany is in Western Europe.

You really believe that Nazi Germany would be immune...maybe you should look at this.

We put all these resources to build an atomic bomb in 1939.....just so we could use it on Japan??

This makes ZERO sense.

I suppose Germany was allocating resources for their atom bomb project so they could drop it on China and Japan too.

 

[KingMamba]

That's most ridiculous comment I have seen for a while

Does it mean Nazi Germany started the war to save the world too?

No wonder indians produced a judge like this one and he was "revered" in japan

He was the only South Asian person appointed to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East's trials of Japanese war crimes committed during the second World War. Among all the judges of the tribunal, he was the only one who submitted a judgment which insisted all defendants were not guilty. The Yasukuni Shrine and the Kyoto Ryozen Gokoku Shrine have monuments specially dedicated to Judge Pal.

Radhabinod Pal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That Judge was right, both the Japs and Nazis while guilty of crimes against humanity were convicted before the conventions that criminalized said actions were even made. So Judge Pal was 1000% correct when he called into question the legitimacy of the "trials" and declared them retribution of the vanquished by the victorious.

 

[TaiShang]

Thoughtful analysis by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes of the BBC: "I think we as a society need to revisit this point in history and ask ourselves how America came to a point where it was okay to destroy entire cities, to firebomb entire cities."

[Note: US bombing destroyed 90% of Naha, Okinawa's capital, on 10/10/44, & continued bombing of Okinawa during the battle with Japan destroyed almost all of Okinawa's material culture & was the primary cause of death of over 1/3 of the population. Both the US & the Imperial Jp govt. bombed multiple cities in China, before Curtis LeMay shifted bombing to Jp cities & Okinawa. LeMay's terror bombing of Jp was his model for bombing Korea, Vietnam, Laos, & Cambodia. US "shock & awe" bombing of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, & now Syria followed this model. The militarist Jp govt. "pre-emptively" bombed Singapore, Hong Kong, Guam, Wake Island, Dutch East Indies, Burma, Shanghai, Manila, Midway, & Thailand on the same day it bombed Pearl Harbor.]

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Were the atomic bombs dropped on ‪#‎Hiroshima‬ and ‪#‎Nagasaki‬ justified by the war? 74% of Japanese believe they weren't, and 61% of respondents think that the US should officially apologize for the bombings.‪#‎HiroshimaDay‬


Most Japanese Believe the US Should Apologize for Atomic Bombings
SPUTNIKNEWS.COM|BY SPUTNIK

 

[cirr]

The Japs deserved everything they got from Uncle Sam，including the two giant mushrooms。

The US won't hesitate to do it（on Japan or any other nation）again should the situation calls for the use of nuclear weapons。

Killing is in the American blood and the US would absolutely do anything to hang on to its perceived dominace over other countries。

 

[TaiShang]

The Japs deserved everything they got from Uncle Sam，including the two giant mushrooms。

The US won't hesitate to do it（on Japan or any other nation）again should the situation calls for the use of nuclear weapons。

Killing is in the American blood and the US would absolutely do anything to hang on to its perceived dominace over other countries。

US nature is obvious and everybody must prepare against it, definitely.

But what is surprising is that, how Japan takes on the insult and behaves like nothing happened. It should not be a coincidence that extensive spying on Japan by the US regime's security apparatus has been revealed just around the time of Hiroshima-Nagasaki anniversary.

Does Mr. Abe's hawkness work against its nearest neighbors only?

 

[rcrmj]

it was a straight forward decision to U.S at that time`

option A: sent more American sons to graveyard,
or
option B: avoiding that on the expense of few irrelevant 'yellow' lives

 

[Beast]

A nation with a nuclear bomb since 1964 but was unable to get back Macau from a rank country like Portugal till 1998

Pretty rich those pearls of wisdom there in your post !

Why did you mention 1998? Becos Macau is already under China now?

Why would China bother to provoke an unnecessary war when Macau will be return in 1999?

 

[hans]

The reason of why US drop atom bomb on Japan is pretty clear..
1: Stop the resistance of Japan force and reduce casualty of US force.
Japan plans to further resist when US army land on Japan.
US suffer great lost in Okinawa which is small party of Japan.
2: Show the power of atom bomb will bring more power to US when talking to Russia.

it was a straight forward decision to U.S at that time`
option A: sent more American sons to graveyard,
or
option B: avoiding that on the expense of few irrelevant 'yellow' lives

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Thoughtful analysis by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes of the BBC: "I think we as a society need to revisit this point in history and ask ourselves how America came to a point where it was okay to destroy entire cities, to firebomb entire cities."

Yes, thoughtful....since he is a hypocrite,
Bombing of Cologne in World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The German city of Cologne was bombed in 262 separate air raids[1] by the Allies during World War II, all by the Royal Air Force (RAF) but a single failed post-capture test of a guided missile by the U.S. Air Force. A total of 34,711 long tons of bombs were dropped on the city by the RAF.....in the raid, 868 aircraft bombed the main target with 15 aircraft bombing other targets. The total tonnage of bombs dropped was 1,455 tons with two-thirds of that being incendiaries. Two and a half thousand separate fires were started with 1,700 classed by the German fire brigades as "large". The action of fire fighters and the width of the streets stopped the fires combining into a firestorm, but nonetheless most of the damage was done by fire and not directly by the explosive blasts.

Cologne


Britain and Germany were firebombing each others cities before the US even joined the war;

 

[TaiShang]

Russia publishes unique 1945 Soviet embassy report of Hiroshima bombing

August 06, 15:09 UTC+3

After the atom bombing Hiroshima was a scorched plain with the ruins of 15-20 ferroconcrete buildings left

© AP Photo/File

TOKYO, August 6. /TASS/. Russia has published a unique report, dispatched to Moscow by staff of the Russian embassy in Japan following the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The report was placed on the website of the Russian Historical Society following instructions from the society’s chairman, State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin.

After the atom bombing Hiroshima was a scorched plain with the ruins of 15-20 ferroconcrete buildings left, says the report authored by Soviet embassy staff and TASS correspondent Anatoly Varshavsky, who took the risk of visiting the area of the bombardment in September 1945.

In the early morning of August 6, 1945 the Japanese air defense noticed a small group of US warplanes approaching Hiroshima. The command decided against intercepting the group. US B-29 bomber Enola Gay piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets flew over the city’s center without any problems to drop the four-tonne uranium bomb Little Boy. Its explosion instantly killed an estimated 70,000 to 100,000 people. Many of those who survived the attack eventually died an early death from radiation sickness. As at August 6, 2014 the overall number of casualties from the atom bombing reached 292,325.

According to a medical doctor who was among those providing first aid to the victims the effects of the blast reduce the number of leucocytes in blood drastically, in some cases, by a factor of four. "The nose, throat and eyes bleed heavily. Those affected run a temperature of up to 39, 40, 41 degrees Celsius. As a rule such people die in three to four days’ time," the witness said.

"The atom bomb’s blast hit an area with a radius of 6-8 kilometers. Within a distance of 6-7 kilometers from the Hiroshima railway station to the Koi station we saw not a single building unaffected to this or that extent," the report runs.



"Those who had dared drink water or wash themselves in the area of the bomb’s fall on the day of the explosion died instantly," doctors said.

As the head of the Japan section at the Russian Foreign Ministry’s third, Asian department, Aleksandr Ilyshev-Vvedensky, said the report was the first eye-witness account of the horrors of bombardments and of what was rightly called a crime against humanity.

"It had never been published before, wholly or in part. In our opinion it deserves to be published on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the atom bombings of Japanese cities," the diplomat said.

For the United States the atom bombing of Hiroshima and of Nagasaki that followed three days later was part and parcel of a systematic policy of terror against the civilian population lying beyond the bounds of morality and international law.

 

[opruh]

Perhaps the way the war was carried out should have been corrected. Decision to go south was not wise.



We shall not forget , we must never forget

We Filipinos will never forget the disgusting and immoral acts committed by the Japanese military to the innocent Filipino civilians.

Manila is the second most destroyed city after Warsaw at the end of the second World War thanks to our so-called peaceful Japanese brothers.

Two nuclear bombs is nothing compared to all the atrocities committed by the Japanese military.

 

[flamer84]

Yes, thoughtful....since he is a hypocrite,
Bombing of Cologne in World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The German city of Cologne was bombed in 262 separate air raids[1] by the Allies during World War II, all by the Royal Air Force (RAF) but a single failed post-capture test of a guided missile by the U.S. Air Force. A total of 34,711 long tons of bombs were dropped on the city by the RAF.....in the raid, 868 aircraft bombed the main target with 15 aircraft bombing other targets. The total tonnage of bombs dropped was 1,455 tons with two-thirds of that being incendiaries. Two and a half thousand separate fires were started with 1,700 classed by the German fire brigades as "large". The action of fire fighters and the width of the streets stopped the fires combining into a firestorm, but nonetheless most of the damage was done by fire and not directly by the explosive blasts.

Cologne


Britain and Germany were firebombing each others cities before the US even joined the war;

More so,the Brits started it during the battle of Britain by bombing German cities which pissed off the Germans who in their turn started to bomb London .That eventually cost them the battle as they relieved pressure from the embattled RAF.

Niot to say ofcourse that the Germans were the initial victims of attacks on civilian cities as they bombed Guernica in the Spanish Civil War and Warsaw in the invasion of Poland.

 

[syedali73]

Was better expected from couch potatoes who feed eagerly on propaganda?

 

[flamer84]

That Judge was right, both the Japs and Nazis while guilty of crimes against humanity were convicted before the conventions that criminalized said actions were even made. So Judge Pal was 1000% correct when he called into question the legitimacy of the "trials" and declared them retribution of the vanquished by the victorious.

Yep,you can't write a law and then judge someone for things that happenned before that law came to be.Anyway,most of the crimes were commited by Allies to.For instance many British,US generals actually defended German commanders who shot partisans on sight as they've done the same with Germans captured behind the lines.And the list goes on.