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Question: How do the Japanese atrocities (Nanking, Unit 731, POWs, Comfort Women) tie in with the atomic bomb!?
There is an argument somewhere about how the atomic bomb dropped on Japan at the end of WWII could be justified by their war time atrocities!. How can this be a strong argument!? Can it be morally correct to say they deserved it!? Or did the use of the atomic bomb stop these atrocities!? Or did Truman decide to use to bomb partly because of how the American POWs were treated and the surprise attack of Pearl Harbor!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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The Germans were about 19 days from delivering Uranium they planed to make into a dirty type bomb to drop on San Francisco!. The Germans were delivering the Uranium on a secret large submarine!. The Japs had plans in the works to use their submarine aircraft carrier to deliver the bomb!. We didn't know if the Germans sent them any more!. If we didn't do it then half of Japan would live like North Korea because the Soviets would demand half!. Only an idiot would conclude that the US treated Japan poorly after the war!. The deaths from the Atomic bomb were far less than those in the bombing of Tokyo!. Blaming the US for Nuclear bombs is silly revisionist propaganda that has no valid basis in reality!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Survivors of Japanese concentration camps have told me of atrocities that happened there!. They say that as the war went on food became scarcer!. They believe that so many of them were in such bad shape at the time that Japan surrendered that had it happened just a few days later, half of them would have perished!. They think that the Japanese surrender was precipitated at that time by the use of the bomb, and that millions of lives were saved as a result!.

Many besides former inmates in these camps are convinced of that as well!. Despite the fact that I am personally skeptical of those assertions, I do not doubt that there are many people both who were in the Japanese concentration camps, and who were not who truly believe the above assertions!.

I note that:

1) The fire bombings (which were more deadly) did nothing to bring Tojo to think about surrender despite the fact that they were going on just outside his bunker!. This brings me to conclude that the idea that Tojo cared more about what became of the Japanese people than Truman did should be in serious doubt!. Certainly, we should doubt that terrorism is something that moved Tojo to action!.

2) I have seen no real evidence that the die off would have been in the millions had the bomb not been used!.

3) The Japanese are human beings who are generally not comfortable with atrocities no matter who commits them!.

Perl Harbor had a similar effect on Americans as did 911!. That gave Truman the political power to committ atrocities against the Japanese, and probably enough equivocation to leave the decision to his underlings to use the atom bomb or not, twice!.

Use of terrorism against a civilian population is very difficult to justify in any case!.Www@QuestionHome@Com