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I feel like this is akin to asking why the staging of the moon landing was not more well documented.
by kctess5 10y ago
I feel like this is akin to asking why the staging of the moon landing was not more well documented.
- nxzero 10y agoThe two bombs killed hundreds of thousands of people. No idea what your point is, please explain.
- lotharbot 10y agoI think he's implying that "why it isn't documented" might be "because it didn't happen" ("it" being serious offers of surrender by Japan that reached the ears of US decision makers.) And that asking "why wasn't it documented?" presupposes that it did happen, which makes it a leading question.
- kctess5 10y agoYep.
- nxzero 10y agoI'm not assuming that it did happened, I'm assuming that if you're going to kill hundreds of thousands of people, that every attempt to reach a outcome that does not require it should be tried and documented.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoDoes 'years of war and 50 millions dead' count as an attempt? Rather than an armchair, the decision-makers were coming from a viewpoint that included more of their friends dying horribly every week. As Tibbets, the guy that flew the mission said about critics of the event, "Those people never had their balls on that cold, hard anvil. They can say anything they want."
- kctess5 10y agoThe parent comment was in a sense asking if nkoren's assertion was reality, or after the fact speculation. If it was in fact speculation (like "the moon landing was staged") then it would follow that there wouldn't be a large amount of documentation. Admittedly not the best comparison.