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[pong lenis]

To convince Japan that the US had the superiority in this war and that if they wanted to continue the war they weren't ever going to win it was going to cost them a lot more lives. It was also a huge bluff, we were dwindling in resources, our holds were precarious.

Japan also gets the benifit now because they are a major ally and their attempts to take over the pacific had little to do with major countries that we love and hold dear. But if it was Germany and we were supporting the UK and we dropped one in Munich we would hear about how horrible it was as much. But what Japan was doing in the Pacific with places they had taken over and POW's was worse than the Germans and how they treated the Jews at times.

Those two bombs ended one of the worse wars and kept millions more on both sides from dieing.

Yep, if you want to beat a country you need to nuke and carpet-bomb civilians cities, cause bombing military targets is overrated.

 

[DeadFred]

Yep, if you want to beat a country you need to nuke and carpet-bomb civilians cities, cause bombing military targets is overrated.

How old are you? You realize there were no guided munitions in those days, right? Most of Europe was a pile of rubble! Geez, watch the History channel or pick up a book sometime.

 

[pong lenis]

How old are you? You realize there were no guided munitions in those days, right? Most of Europe was a pile of rubble! Geez, watch the History channel or pick up a book sometime.

How old am I? Are you saying you are 90 years old and remembering those days?
You realize there's airfields and military bases everywhere, right? They could have bombed those instead. In fact switching to bombing civilian cities instead of military targets is what made the Germans lose the Battle of Britain.
And I don't usually use a TV channel that says aliens built the pyramids as source of history.

 

[Topweasel]

I mostly agree except for the huge bluff part, we were gonna finish that war one way or another.

Well in terms of their ability to make the nukes. It was more likely Japan started development and made their own before we would have been able to make another. But after Germany's surrender and even before the US populace was once again for like the third time waning on support for the war (we do this every time). I doubt we could have kept it going long enough to get a land invasion started. So to me that's a bluff. In the end though specially with the extra forces from other combat zones we could have really taken it to them. And that's why they dropped them. For every civilian life lost there they saved probably 10 soldiers and maybe even 30 other civilians and it wasn't like Japan was following any rules of engagement anyways. They did some sick things in the areas the took over during the war.

 

[DeadFred]

How old am I? Are you saying you are 90 years old and remembering those days?
You realize there's airfields and military bases everywhere, right? They could have bombed those instead. In fact switching to bombing civilian cities instead of military targets is what made the Germans lose the Battle of Britain.
And I don't usually use a TV channel that says aliens built the pyramids as source of history.

I asked because you sound like an innocent child around 5 years of age, who still believes in Santa.

They (axis and allies) mainly went after factories producing military supplies which at that time meant nearly all the factories, and those factories were located in large populated cities. Some nations took it further than others, but no one was guiltless when it came to mass civilian casualties in WW2.

Hitler's decision to open a second front against Russia was what really ruined his chances of taking Britain.

The Germans knew it would take a full on ground invasion to ever take Britain, just as we knew the same about Japan. Thankfully the A-bomb solved that problem for us. Now we are back where this whole conversation started.