Debate Atomic bombing of Japan in WW2

sourdauer · Aug 5, 2009

Twinbird24 said: ↑

USA's intelligence reports at the time depicted a Japan weakened by years of war in Asia abroad and firebombing by the US. They were going to surrender anyway. They were at the end of their ropes. The war couldn't have continued very much longer. The bombs were NOT a means to stop the war. It was practically already over. Japan had lost. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were to send a message to Russia about the military might of the USA. They were dropped to justify the cost of making them. And, they were dropped to field test the carnage an atomic bomb could cause on a city. They were not the end of WWII. They were the start of the Cold War. Keep in mind, also, that the atomic bombs didn't do nearly as much damage or kill nearly as many people as the firebombing of Japanese cities that went on for ages during the war.
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^^^ i see what u did there. good points

Twinbird24 said: ↑

The attack on Pearl Harbour was planned and anticipated to get USA involvement in the war (as most Americans took an isolationist point of view and did not want to get involved) and break out of the depression - to make money. The troops at Pearl Harbour were set up in an undesirable position where planes could not be visible until it was too late - the General (I think) who was in charge of the troops at Pearl Harbour noticed an obvious flaw in the set-up of the troops but was fired from his position.

Sorry I could not find my sources but I'm not just making this up.
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^^^dont see what you did there. there is a thin line between a factual arguement and a conspiracy theory.

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