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Hiroshima, 64 Years Later
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 583141" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>It is also important to remember that our actions <em>after</em> the Japanese surrender were to assist in the rebuilding of the country and to create a stable and peaceful democracy.</p><p> </p><p>Compare post-war Japan with post-war East Germany. The level of destruction in both nations was comparable; but while we helped to rebuild Japan, the Russians only goal was to create an impoverished, bankrupt sattelite nation that would serve as a buffer zone between it and the West.</p><p> </p><p>The debate over the moral implications of dropping the atomic bombs needs to factor in the realities of the global war we found ourselves thrust into. There had already been unspeakable death and destruction on a scale never before seen in the history of humankind. Entire cities had already been leveled; entire nations and ethnic groups had been uprooted, starved and slaughtered. Something like 60 million people died worldwide. New terror weapons (German V-1 and V-2 rockets) had been introduced that indescriminantly target civilians and against which there was no defense. The atomic bomb was seen, at that time, as just another point in this gruesome continuum of destruction. We simply used the best weapons we had to end the war as quickly as possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 583141, member: 14668"] It is also important to remember that our actions [I]after[/I] the Japanese surrender were to assist in the rebuilding of the country and to create a stable and peaceful democracy. Compare post-war Japan with post-war East Germany. The level of destruction in both nations was comparable; but while we helped to rebuild Japan, the Russians only goal was to create an impoverished, bankrupt sattelite nation that would serve as a buffer zone between it and the West. The debate over the moral implications of dropping the atomic bombs needs to factor in the realities of the global war we found ourselves thrust into. There had already been unspeakable death and destruction on a scale never before seen in the history of humankind. Entire cities had already been leveled; entire nations and ethnic groups had been uprooted, starved and slaughtered. Something like 60 million people died worldwide. New terror weapons (German V-1 and V-2 rockets) had been introduced that indescriminantly target civilians and against which there was no defense. The atomic bomb was seen, at that time, as just another point in this gruesome continuum of destruction. We simply used the best weapons we had to end the war as quickly as possible. [/QUOTE]
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