• IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The same thing can be said about Japan. A lot more people died by the hands of the Japanese Empire during WW2 than those two nukes did.

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      1 year ago

      Still, dropped it on two civilian targets.

      Imagine Russia taking out LA and NYC; you guys would never let anyone forget that no matter what

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          1 year ago

          Agreed, not a good thing. Abu Ghraib ring any bells?

          See? We can do this all day long but in the end the fact is that these “tactical nukes” weren’t used to take out parts of the command structure, but to vaporise not one but two major civilian population centres.

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            1 year ago

            Agreed, not a good thing. Abu Ghraib ring any bells?

            That’s not even fucking close.

            but in the end the fact is that these “tactical nukes” weren’t used to take out parts of the command structure,

            Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both chosen for their military and industrial importance.

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              1 year ago

              Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both chosen for their military and industrial importance.

              I could probably say the same for San Fransisco if it was chosen.

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                  1 year ago

                  And we’d never hear the end of it, yet it’s no big deal when done abroad.

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                    yet it’s no big deal when done abroad.

                    I see you aren’t interested in any serious discussion considering that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a major event in the American cultural consciousness and still evoke strong reactions even today.