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TOKYO - Japan's defense minister said Saturday that the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States during World War II was an inevitable way to end the war, drawing criticism from atomic bomb survivors.
I understand that the bombing ended the war, and I think that it couldn't be helped," Kyuma said in a speech at a university in Chiba, just east of Tokyo.
Originally posted by uberarcanist
I hope something like that NEVER happens again.
Originally posted by Zanzibar
So the way I see it, the US military leaders were as sick, twisted and cruel as they are nowadays, using poison gas? Firebombs? What the hell were there military leaders thinking? Japan would have been forced to surrender sooner rather than later.
Originally posted by Zanzibar
There is no way that anyone can justify the A-Bomb attacks, massacring countless thousands of civilians is not a way to end a war.
Originally posted by sb2012
he is a disgrace for Japan and a worthless traitor! I am not even sure if he deserves honorable hara-kiri.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
Well, following that "logic," then there are millions on top of millions of Americans that should be currently tried for being traitorous.
[edit on 30-6-2007 by SpeakerofTruth]
Originally posted by shrunkensimon
It becomes even more insulting when you realise that we developed them in response to the Nazi threat.. yet the Nazis never were developing nuclear weapons..
Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker, a physicist who researched atomic weapons for the Nazis and became a philosophy professor who espoused pacifism after World War II, died at 94. He claimed he worked on the atomic bomb to avoid being conscripted into the Nazi army and in postwar interviews that he was grateful the nuclear technology was never used by the Nazis. But a secret recording of German scientists captured by the Allies caught him saying, after hearing of the U.S. nuclear bombing of Japan that, "If they were able to finish it by summer 1945, then with a bit of luck, we could have been ready in winter 1944-1945."
Originally posted by katsumi
he dont know what he says, USA dropped the A-bombs to use the population as guineapig, the war was finishing and the USA had not tested yet... simple that
Originally posted by uberarcanist
I've read John Hersey's "Hiroshima", a journalistic nonfiction book about the experiences of Hiroshima survivors. I
Originally posted by shrunkensimon
It becomes even more insulting when you realise that we developed them in response to the Nazi threat.. yet the Nazis never were developing nuclear weapons..