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Originally Posted by dculkin
For those who say that they don't care whether torture works because the U.S. doesn't torture, how do you explain why we bombed Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Dresden? I'm no historian, but I think that's a tough one to answer. Morally, aren't those bombings comparable to torture?
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Harry didn't think so. After Okinawa, it was all about numbers in Japan. Don't know about the targeting of Dresden logic.
"Sixteen Hours Ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an
important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons
of T.N.T. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the
British "Grand Slam" which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the
history of warfare.
The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been
repaid many fold. And the end is not yet......."