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The Japanese were killing more civilians in China and other occupied territories in two weeks than a single nuclear bomb did. If the bombs shortened the war by
by himinlomax 3y ago
The Japanese were killing more civilians in China and other occupied territories in two weeks than a single nuclear bomb did. If the bombs shortened the war by just a month, and that's a perfectly reasonable estimate, they were morally justified.
Read up on Japanese atrocities. They were just as bad as Nazi concentration camp.
- fulafel 3y agoWas this really the motivation, or a post war found justification? Regardless, we'd then need to consider what were the military options to defend chinese civilians (eg bombing (nuking?) Japanese military assets there).
- himinlomax 3y agoAtrocities committed by Japan in China were very much a concern in the US (and even in Germany for that matter!) already before the war, and were incontrovertibly the reason for the US foreign policy towards Japan then, and thus arguably a distant cause for Pearl Harbor. You'd have to argue that the US had forgotten about it, and then not gotten the memo on the atrocities committed since then.
- refurb 3y agoDoes it have to be the motivation? It's true in either case.