Hiroshima August 1945

the first Atom Bomb fell onto a city

80 years ago

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Rumpel said:

the first Atom Bomb fell onto a city

80 years ago

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The sad thing is it pretty unequivocally saved millions of lives.

Tigerace117 said:

The sad thing is it pretty unequivocally saved millions of lives.

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On this we agree.

Rumpel said:

the first Atom Bomb fell onto a city
80 years ago

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Technically the second atomic bomb. The first was exploded in the Trinity nuclear test.

The city was Japan's primary military port, held tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers, and was the headquarters in charge of repelling our looming invasion of Japan.

The atomic bombs provided an example that restrained the US and USSR from launching nukes during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Things probably would have turned out a lot differently had Kennedy and Khrushchev not had the examples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to think about.

Else the cuba crisis may have turned into a nuclaer war

Rumpel said:

the first Atom Bomb fell onto a city

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Dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was one of the best things President Truman ever did. Those bombings, horrible as they were, potentially saved hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers’ lives and millions of Japanese lives. Despite what some people on both the Right and the Left claim, the Japanese were NOT going to surrender even though everyone knew the war was lost. The Imperial Army generals were determined to fight to the end, and one way we know this is because they attempted a military coup even after Emperor Hirohito made the decision to surrender in order to prevent the broadcast of said surrender, though that coup failed.
Moral of the story: If you’re a Totalitarian superpower, don’t **** with the USA.

Mark