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jammies · 06-01-2009, 01:02 AM

The only thing wrong with the USA dropping A-bombs on the Japanese is that they didn't have them 4-5 years earlier to drop on Germany and Japan to end the war then.

It's the "atomic" bugaboo that gets people thinking this is somehow qualitatively different from the conventional bombing the Allies did using exactly the same justifications; "atomic" bombs seem so horrifying now that using them is almost unthinkable, but at the time they weren't seen as anything more than a natural progression of weapons already in use. It was only when the proliferation of such weapons threatened humanity's existence that they were perceived as an entirely different (and immoral) category of weapon, and trying to apply this stigma retroactively is revisionism of the worst kind.

06-01-2009, 01:02 AM	#26
jammies Basement Chicken Choker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants. Exp:	The only thing wrong with the USA dropping A-bombs on the Japanese is that they didn't have them 4-5 years earlier to drop on Germany and Japan to end the war then. It's the "atomic" bugaboo that gets people thinking this is somehow qualitatively different from the conventional bombing the Allies did using exactly the same justifications; "atomic" bombs seem so horrifying now that using them is almost unthinkable, but at the time they weren't seen as anything more than a natural progression of weapons already in use. It was only when the proliferation of such weapons threatened humanity's existence that they were perceived as an entirely different (and immoral) category of weapon, and trying to apply this stigma retroactively is revisionism of the worst kind. __________________ Better educated sadness than oblivious joy.