Were Hiroshima & Nagasaki terrorist attacks?

[aeroplane]

I'm curious which version of reality you subscribe to. Was the nuclear bombing of the two civilian cities warranted to stop the war? Was the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki an opportunity for the US to say to the world, "We have the bomb and we are not afraid to use it, so listen up!"? Please vote and leave your comments. Thank you.
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[aeroplane]

I'm curious which version of reality you subscribe to. Was the nuclear bombing of the two civilian cities warranted to stop the war? Was the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki an opportunity for the US to say to the world, "We have the bomb and we are not afraid to use it, so listen up!"? Please vote and leave your comments. Thank you.
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[Torkel]

I voted "yes", IMO the Japanese were already a defeated nation in WW2.

The ussa did want to test out their new bomb in a real-life situation.

At the end or near the end of WW2, the ussa & ussr began the cold-war...

imperialistic, corporate-minded, power hungry motherfuckers with no regard for humanity - other than themselves & what benefits them.

Peace.
Torkel
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Miller vs U.S. (230 F 2nd 486,489): "The claim and exercise of a Constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime."

Miranda vs Arizona (384 U.S. 436, 125): "Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule-making or legislation which would abrogate them."

HAGANS vs LAVINE (415 US 533 N-3,note 5): "Once JURISDICTION is challenged it must be proven by the Plaintiff."

[Torkel]

I voted "yes", IMO the Japanese were already a defeated nation in WW2.

The ussa did want to test out their new bomb in a real-life situation.

At the end or near the end of WW2, the ussa & ussr began the cold-war...

imperialistic, corporate-minded, power hungry motherfuckers with no regard for humanity - other than themselves & what benefits them.

Peace.
Torkel
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Miller vs U.S. (230 F 2nd 486,489): "The claim and exercise of a Constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime."

Miranda vs Arizona (384 U.S. 436, 125): "Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule-making or legislation which would abrogate them."

HAGANS vs LAVINE (415 US 533 N-3,note 5): "Once JURISDICTION is challenged it must be proven by the Plaintiff."

[Brother Adam]

My vote is a yes too. Blatant disregard for human life is a war crime, let alone the fact that they were mostly all civilians that died.

What am I saying??? WAR in ITSELF is a CRIME! Peace will only come through peaceful action.....Defense is a whole other story, and does not fit into the historic versions of these events as a reason for US involvement.

Sounds just like today.......I dare someone to say history does not repeat itself!
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Police officers acquitted for beating a 64 yr old man recently in New Orleans. In the words of their defense attorney "all he had to do was comply"....and they wouldn't have fractured his face.

[Brother Adam]

My vote is a yes too. Blatant disregard for human life is a war crime, let alone the fact that they were mostly all civilians that died.

What am I saying??? WAR in ITSELF is a CRIME! Peace will only come through peaceful action.....Defense is a whole other story, and does not fit into the historic versions of these events as a reason for US involvement.

Sounds just like today.......I dare someone to say history does not repeat itself!
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-Brother Adam (we are all one family)

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison

Police officers acquitted for beating a 64 yr old man recently in New Orleans. In the words of their defense attorney "all he had to do was comply"....and they wouldn't have fractured his face.

[Ferre]

[Ferre]

[zero]

The bomb should have been dropped on Hitler himself. It would have served him right for killing all the jews.

However, the japanese, unlike the nazis, were a industrious people with the capacity to give the world playstations and decent anime cartoons. Its just criminal to attack people like that.
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DO NOT KILL is not one of the 10 suggestions.

[Torkel]

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[Torkel]

The GCW wrote:

[Fyrefly1]

The two bombings of Japan were definitely terrorist attacks...killing innocent people to make a statement is always an act of terrorism.

It's just that back then the US thought they would be saving American soldiers' lives by doing so and the Japanese were considered low lifes who deserved to die for attacking us at Pearl Harbor.

It's interesting that Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Harry Truman asking him to show the power of the bomb by detonating it off the shores of Tokyo as a show of what it could do to them if they didn't surrender.

That letter, of course, was ignored...
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[Fyrefly1]

The two bombings of Japan were definitely terrorist attacks...killing innocent people to make a statement is always an act of terrorism.

It's just that back then the US thought they would be saving American soldiers' lives by doing so and the Japanese were considered low lifes who deserved to die for attacking us at Pearl Harbor.

It's interesting that Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Harry Truman asking him to show the power of the bomb by detonating it off the shores of Tokyo as a show of what it could do to them if they didn't surrender.

That letter, of course, was ignored...
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Arthur Schopenhauer, 19th Century Philosopher

[Brother Adam]

Einstein was a great thinker wasn't he?

What's sad is they didn't think one time was enough to deter them, so they dumped more radioactive material on Japanese soil...

That's about as good as the depleted uranium rounds they use now. They're trying to make a mark that lasts for 50-60 years..
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-Brother Adam (we are all one family)

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison

Police officers acquitted for beating a 64 yr old man recently in New Orleans. In the words of their defense attorney "all he had to do was comply"....and they wouldn't have fractured his face.

[Brother Adam]

Einstein was a great thinker wasn't he?

What's sad is they didn't think one time was enough to deter them, so they dumped more radioactive material on Japanese soil...

That's about as good as the depleted uranium rounds they use now. They're trying to make a mark that lasts for 50-60 years..
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-Brother Adam (we are all one family)

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison

Police officers acquitted for beating a 64 yr old man recently in New Orleans. In the words of their defense attorney "all he had to do was comply"....and they wouldn't have fractured his face.

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[indicaspice]

I've often wondered why Japan and not Germany? Was it because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?
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It's like pulling a thread on a sweater...it all begins to unravel in pretty short order...

Bliss,
Ben
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[POisonDa]

To all who replied:

As of yet i am the only one how feels that was not a terrorist attack.


I belive many of you need to refresh your history. form my memory it is more like this. Does any one know what unconditional surrender means???? That was the objective in both theaters. We could not have used it on hitler because it was not ready yet and rest assured we would have dropped it on him too. One i was not there on the beaches of Iwo Jima or the massaive naval battles on the open seas, but form a military stand point completely oblitrating two entire citys to force an end, in acoordance with unconditional surrender, to save an uncountable numberof lives could be justified. I ask any one who was there or has been in combat to speak on that. If i new there was a bomb that could be dropped so that maybe i will not have to die, then use it.
Though many are right we could have just exploded it over the ocean in clear sight. If i were truman i would have done this only if japan had not sucker punched us. Which i feel is a TERRORIST ATTACK but for some reason no one is asking that question. WHat about Komakazi pilots does that show peace offerings. Would those be TERRORIST ATTACKS. The batan death march, prisoner abuse and neglect, and a host of other things the japs did show that they are just as inhuman as any. I have my reserves about my country too, but "do unto others", fits this situation.
To address americans thinking they are superior over the japs, yes maybe some did, but do you know what the japs did to the chinamen. they slaugther them by the millions regular farmers peasants. Many were used as target practice. the extermanation of the jews was tragic yes and everyone knows of this but japans artocities was not taught to me in world history i know that for sure.
As for american corporation having a hand in the german war machine i have not read nor herd that any where, if true this is very intesting. can you back up this claim????
True war is barbaric in ways, but is needed in society. I mean war will happen it just takes time. fact is there are evil people in the worldand they need to be delt with accordingly you can't talk everyone in to peace. War has been part of our human evolution, with new findsing and technologies scientists now believe that ealry man may have elminated other speices similar to us. If true then it is ingrained in our dna but that is just an idea not a fact. Many think that an man such as hitler will never bee seen from again, i say in this day and age it would be even easier. War. Rev. Adam if you could please show when in history peace cam form peacefull actions, i am curious? History does repeat itself but not simpley because, it will only repeat when we forget. remember that or i will have to repeat it to later in the future. good day all i hope yall can make some snese of my chicken scratches.

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Hello, POisonDa. Please take the following in the spirit in which it is intended:

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