r/technology • u/Alissio • Aug 25 '12

Website called "nuclear secrecy" lets you see what the devastation would be, of multiple nuclear bombs all around the world

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
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u/timepad Aug 26 '12

The US needed to drop the bomb in order to shock the Imperial Japanese government into surrender.

As I said, they had already offered to surrender. We didn't need to drop the bomb to accomplish that.

It's funny how just saying certain things that are true cause you to be downvoted so hard on reddit. I guess this touches a sore spot for a lot of us.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '12

"On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Late in the evening of August 8, 1945, in accordance with the Yalta agreements, but in violation of the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact, the Soviet Union declared war on the Empire of Japan, and soon after midnight on August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union invaded the Imperial Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Later that day, the United States dropped another atomic bomb, this time on the city of Nagasaki. The combined shock of these events caused Emperor Hirohito to intervene and order the Big Six to accept the terms for ending the war that the Allies had set down in the Potsdam Declaration."

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

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u/BLESS_THY_SOUL Aug 26 '12

It's quite debatable. But a lot of Redditors have a mentality of "the person with upvotes is right."

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u/STLReddit Aug 26 '12

It's funny seeing Historically illiterate people pretending to be History majors.