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There is a reasonable argument that the use of nukes would haven saved millions of lives, like it did in Japan. Ulysses S Grant was criticized for the heavy lo
by valuearb 10y ago
There is a reasonable argument that the use of nukes would haven saved millions of lives, like it did in Japan.
Ulysses S Grant was criticized for the heavy losses his armies took and inflicted, but he ended a stalemated war that was killing hundreds of thousands of people a year.
- krapp 10y agoThere is also a reasonable argument that the use of nukes would have demonstrated the US, being the only power to ever use nuclear weapons in combat until that point and having thus proven willing to continue doing so indiscriminately, to be a much greater threat to the world than the Axis powers were, or the Communist powers at the time.
- valuearb 10y agoThat some might not understand is a poor reason to sentence half the world to slavery and death. Many of the peaceniks of the 50s grew to regret their positions when they found out what was really going on behind the iron curtain. Remember when Bertrand Russell was advocating a pre-emptive nuclear war to ensure it would be the last nuclear war?