zamaron:

tariqah:

Since it’s Nagasaki Day, let’s remember how the US convinced the entire world that the deaths of 39000-80000 people, which consisted MOSTLY of civilians, was equivalent to the attack on Pearl Harbour, a military base

Let’s also remember that dropping these bombs had NOTHING to do with “ending the war by sacrificing a few lives” because the war had already been lost for Japan before that. Japan was already on the verge of surrender and William Leahy, who was Truman’s Chief of staff, told Truman and knew this. Leahy also said that “the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan” The only thing was that Japan wanted to keep their emperor in power to help control the changes that would be made in an occupied Japan. Dwigth Eisenhower, Henry Stimson, William Halsey Jr., Curtis LeMay were all prominent leaders in the military and have said the same. That dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary and had nothing to do with the war.

So why was the bomb dropped? Because the U.S needed to test it in a real life scenario and it was a message to the rest of the world and Russia specifically. The message was “we can destroy highly packed cities in an instance and we can do it whenever we want” and it was supposed to demonstrate how atomic weapons would help dominate the postwar era. The United states killed thousands of people and ruined immeasurable lives to prove a point. To say “look how big our guns are”.