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CaptainCrunch · 09-15-2004, 01:17 PM

QUOTE (Lurch @ Sep 13 2004, 03:16 PM)
Thinking about 9/11 always takes me back to videos they showed me in school from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Bombing these cities was probably the most horrific act ever done by mankind, yet all I ever felt was a distached feeling of sympathy and a nagging feeling that what we had done (the west) was brutal beyond belief. I mean, why not drop one bomb on an island and demonstrate what would happen rather than wiping out hundreds of thousands of civilians. .

We debated this one ad nauseum in school, and we figured that a island bombing wouldn't have deterred the Military Government that was in place. When they bombed Hiroshima they got no response from those in charge as they probably felt and thier intelligence organizations had told them that there was only one bomb built due to a shortage of Weapons grade material in the States at the time.

When the second bomb was dropped it not only forced the Military to doubt its own sources, but the emperor finally got involved in wresting control from the Military and forced them to accept a peace treaty.

Dropping a bomb on a Island would have had little effect on the controled propaganda in Japan at the time.

09-15-2004, 01:17 PM	#125
CaptainCrunch Norm! Join Date: Jun 2002 Exp:	QUOTE (Lurch @ Sep 13 2004, 03:16 PM) Thinking about 9/11 always takes me back to videos they showed me in school from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Bombing these cities was probably the most horrific act ever done by mankind, yet all I ever felt was a distached feeling of sympathy and a nagging feeling that what we had done (the west) was brutal beyond belief. I mean, why not drop one bomb on an island and demonstrate what would happen rather than wiping out hundreds of thousands of civilians. . We debated this one ad nauseum in school, and we figured that a island bombing wouldn't have deterred the Military Government that was in place. When they bombed Hiroshima they got no response from those in charge as they probably felt and thier intelligence organizations had told them that there was only one bomb built due to a shortage of Weapons grade material in the States at the time. When the second bomb was dropped it not only forced the Military to doubt its own sources, but the emperor finally got involved in wresting control from the Military and forced them to accept a peace treaty. Dropping a bomb on a Island would have had little effect on the controled propaganda in Japan at the time. __________________ My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!