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Wow, just half a dozen comments from why we're not saving North Koreans to "we could've nuked China and solved a lot of problems." Some Hacker News threads are
by yongjik 11mo ago
Wow, just half a dozen comments from why we're not saving North Koreans to "we could've nuked China and solved a lot of problems."
Some Hacker News threads are on their own level.
- petcat 11mo agoWell we know what happened to North Korea after China "won". And it's pretty fucking god-awful for 10s of millions of people for 80+ years. USA dropping nukes probably would have been the better outcome for humanity.
- gpm 11mo agoUSA dropping nukes would have prevented the convention against using nukes in wars from being started. I think there's a pretty good chance we wouldn't have any civilization left by now if we went down that fork in history.
- jojobas 11mo agoHow is nuking Japan different from nuking Korea? Everybody agrees that forcing Japan to surrender with nukes was much better for everyone involved than a ground invasion.
- AngryData 11mo agoWhen Japan was bombed, nobody else in the world had nuclear weapons, the US only had 2, and there were only a handful of people outside of the US seriously researching nuclear weapons and were still years away from a test. By 1950 the USSR had working nuclear bombs, had proven so with a nuclear test, and a dozen other countries had started their own nuclear weapons programs.
- nl 11mo agoIt's different almost by definition? Because it was a once (twice!) off the impact and significance of it is amplified.
- nl 11mo agoWait - you think the solution to some people having a lower standard of living and others being persecuted is to kill them all?
- lkbm 11mo agoNukes usually don't wipe out entire countries, especially tactical nukes. I'm far from convinced that using nukes in the Korean War would've been a good move, but equating it with "kill[ing] them all" is completely dishonest. What's your goal in this debate, and is it served by dishonest rhetoric?
- nl 11mo agoMy comment is in the context of: > That USA didn't nuke China in 1950 or 1951. Would have solved a lot of problems for generations of people. > USA dropping nukes probably would have been the better outcome for humanity. Both of which I read as an expansive campaign of "nuking China"