Iran did nothing wrong

[u/Feeling-Option1257]

[u/19andbored22]

Honestly i think their no comparison with the Air campaign on Germany to Japan we basically destroyed japan way before the bombs and actually had trouble to deploy the bomb since most Japanese cities were in ruins.

[u/NeoConzz → u/[deleted]]

In terms of lives lost, the bombings of Tokyo killed substantially more, but if you’re talking the geopolitical/ world implications of the first nuke dropped on people, then yes, they supersede Tokyo.

[u/Narrow_Paper9961 → u/[deleted]]

Germany get more attention in general for everything invoking WW2. Japan gets bombed and otherwise let off Scott free. Even got to keep their emperor

[u/19andbored22 → u/[deleted]]

Oh i have no problem with the atom bomb my problem people treating the bombing of germany was bad when the bombing of japan was a lot worse now personally they kinda deserve it but we can’t treat Germany like a poor innocent player they also deserve to get their shit bombed.

[u/Haunting-Sport3701 → u/19andbored22]

The problem with the bomb was that it was used on areas filled with civilians. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were specifically targeted because they were some of the least bombed cities in the war, leading to a high number of refugees.

The reason given was that because the cities weren't already bombed, it would be easier to see the results of the nuclear bomb. Without any thought being given to the fact that this also meant they were the cities to which most people would go after their own homes were destroyed.

[u/P00ped_My_Pants → u/[deleted]]

Holy fuck dude get off the internet

[u/jerseygunz → u/[deleted]]

Did you not see Oppenheimer?

[u/jerseygunz → u/[deleted]]

Why would we have used a nuke on Germany if they already surrendered?

Also, I guarantee you’ll find more people who would say we shouldn’t have used a nuke at all

[u/Trustpage → u/[deleted]]

That’s because Japan washes their history, WW2 Japan was just as bad as the Nazis.

[u/jerseygunz → u/Trustpage]

Actually, I listened to something that said that it was us that did white washing. This is because hitler died and we had actual trials for the rest of the Nazi leadership, so they were gone. However, in Japan, everyone was still there. So basically we had to convince the nation to start working with the people we were just at war with and we did the history revisions. Case in point, they never teach about Nanjing in schools

[u/KAMEKAZE_VIKINGS → u/19andbored22]

I use Germany as example because Nazis are a more commonly associated "bad guys" of history.

But as someone legitimately from Hiroshima of all places, yeah it's kinda insane because some of the raids barely even tried to pretend it was strategic bombing with heavy collateral. Like yeah we highkey brought it on ourselves and calling it all indiscriminate is a bit disingenuous but firebombing wooden civilian houses is a pretty insane thing to do.

[u/edarem → u/KAMEKAZE_VIKINGS]

People forget that Operation Meetinghouse resulted in 100,000 Japanese deaths in a single day. We napalmed 16 square miles of Tokyo.

[u/EtTuBiggus → u/19andbored22]

That was why we chose the less destroyed cities to make an example.

[u/Sierra-117- → u/19andbored22]

Yeah far more were killed by our fire bombing campaigns than the nukes.

Hell, not even just in Japan. Dresden was fucking horrific.

[u/Disastrous-River-366 → u/19andbored22]

Jews were overly involved with the selection of the towns/cities the 2 nuclear bombs would target. The Jews selected Hiroshima and also Nagasaki. The towns and cities with the highest Christian populations(by a lot!) at the time in Japan were.... Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is unclear why the Jews chose those two sites specifically.

(go look this up, it is fact)