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Originally Posted by cmac2012
It's tough to put ourselves in that environment, IMO. Germany was working on a nuke, Einstein thought so anyway and we now know he was right. Combined with their advanced (for the day) missile tech, if they'd got the bomb first, would have been a different ballgame. One wonders how many nukes they would have used on Allied cities.
The Japanese were pretty harsh in WW2. Not saying they deserved to be nuked but I can see how people at the time could have felt justified in that.
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War is a harsh thing, nothing nice about it. My Dad was on the Westfront as an infantrist, during the final episode. Not to mention all the others.
Ofcourse, everybody felt justified to drop those bombs, or were made to feel that way. This is how wars are, without all the emotional manipulation. There are no wars with manipulation of the masses.
From a strategic point of view, it would have been stupid not to drop the bombs, once they had them.
It is the phrasing of the term, "it ended the war", to create the belief, it was a "good thing", rather than stating, 'chances are we may not have defeated the Japanese on their island with conventional means'.
Hypocritical and apologetic, to say the least. But than again, propagandist rethoric is part of the equation.