XemnasXD wrote:wikipedia wrote:Hiroshima was a minor supply and logistics base for the Japanese military. The city was a communications center, a storage point, and an assembly area for troops. It was one of several Japanese cities left deliberately untouched by American bombing, allowing a pristine environment to measure the damage caused by the atomic bomb.
like i said there was nothing there. Theres tons of these kinds of places all over the US theres one not far from Philly in fact Philadelphia is a naval yard...not bomb worthy by anyone standards like i said This was an experiment by the US to see there bomb work on the field. Only reason for the bomb drop.
I don't like quoting wiki anymore but if you read the section on WWII with regards to japan it will tell you we had Soldiers on the Island DURING the bombing. We had already successfully invaded and captured cities so stop saying without the bomb we'd have lost hundreds of millions in fighting because that is not the case. Would the alternative have been longer, Yes. Would the alternative have probably saved more innocent lives, Yes. Dropping bombs is an easy solution to problems but its not a good one, we could wipe Iraq off the map but is that really something we want to do, no. Same logic applies here.
And btw you can speculate the reason why we got into WWII and call them conspiracy theories but any credible historian will tell you that The US wanted Japan to launch an attack so they could enter the war. Thats not debatable, its a fact and i cannot stress that piece of information enough.
Like I said, what would've been a better choice then? Those nukes weren't the only bombs we ever dropped on Japan. At that point I'd be surprised if there was truly any serious targets left in the mainland. Yet they still wanted to fight us even after like you said we had troops around ready to go when we did finally nuke them. We basically hadn't lost a single advance to Japan in the entire campaign and they continued to defy us. And after giving them a chance to finally STOP all fighting, they chose to keep going and dealt with the consequences.
You can't ever say for sure more or less people would've died because we don't know. There are tons of examples of fanaticism by the Japanese throughout the war against impossible odds that tell me they would've never given up until everything was gone. It's good they did finally surrender after the bombings or else we would've totally taken them over like we said we would.
The US and our allies wanted Japan to stop taking shit over, since they had already taken China. So we stopped trading with them, and what happened? Japan got pissed and attacked us for it. And look where it got them.
This conspiracy shit isn't fact, it's insane. It's just another piece in the puzzle people put together when they choose to believe the world is run by a group of rich white guys pulling every single string on Earth to eventually take it over. Yes I'm sure some people truly did want Japan to attack us to generate profit, that's what any business would want if they were in a position to. Companies make money off wars all the time. But to say they orchestrated the whole thing is complete bullshit.
