Remembrance Day.

[Bond]

Originally Posted by GiMpY-wAnNaBe

exactly....


and as for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.... there is no reason why they hit COMPLETE civilian targets.... people who did not want to be in the war, and people who had no desire to fight and die for the war. The only difference that the US showed by hitting those targets is that they had no interest in civilian deaths. Military targets would have made just a strong a message, especially since the japanese would have realized the futility of gathering troops in one place for an attack as they could easily be dispatched..... anyways....ya, thats my opinion

If we wouldn't have bombed Japan a lot more people would have died. I would rather not go into details... just believe me.

[Seth]

The bombing had to happen, I just don't agree with two bombs being dropped. One bomb would have been sufficient enough.

They blew one bomb up in the air and one one the ground. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just 'tests'. Basically they were guinea pigs.



Here's a question, could you have pressed the button to drop those bombs? If I was the pilot, I don't think I could.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by bouncer_agb

The bombing had to happen, I just don't agree with two bombs being dropped. One bomb would have been sufficient enough.

They blew one bomb up in the air and one one the ground. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just 'tests'. Basically they were guinea pigs.



Here's a question, could you have pressed the button to drop those bombs? If I was the pilot, I don't think I could.

The US asked Japan to surrender after the first bomb was dropped. Japan refused. They refused after the single most destructive weapon known to mankind was detonated on their populace.

The Japanese were, and still are to a large extent, a samurai culture. Quite literally it is in their nature to die before being shamed. We need to look on other cultures through their ideals, and not ours. I find this happening a lot lately, especially in discussions about the Middle East.

[Seth]

Another city had to be destroyed though? Couldn't the US just **** up a large japanese island or Japan's largest military base(s)?