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>This is of relevance to the question because there are a lot of people who think the bombing of Hiroshima is justified, but when you get into the question of N
by cmsmith 11y ago
>This is of relevance to the question because there are a lot of people who think the bombing of Hiroshima is justified, but when you get into the question of Nagasaki it gets more murky. Three days is not adequate time for a government to make a major decision; it is not really even adequate time for a government to assess what has happened (whether it was really an atomic bomb, what the damages were like, etc.).
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- mason240 11y agoIf the decision was in the hands of theatre commanders it certainly doesn't make it harder to justify, and in fact deals a serious blow to the "the bombs were only dropped because of political relations with Russia" meme.