Friday, January 13, 2012

Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Warcrimes or neccisary?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki occured on 6–9 August 1945. 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 were killed. The first half of casalties instantly. Now my question to you is: Do you think it was a war crime?

I honestly don't. If we're counting numbers here, The firebombings of Japan killed more people. And X-Day would have killed a estimated 11-14M Japanese + Americans. This was the quickest way to end the war. Also, If the two bombs had not been dropped, We probably would've used it somewhere else. A worse place.


Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operation_Olympic.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operation_Coronet.jpg

2 comments:

  1. No. The result of the bombings ended the war (like you said) and saved more people than if the war had continued.

    ReplyDelete
  2. nuking Japs is better than having to send our boys in....

    ReplyDelete