[ SECRET POST #3181 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3181 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

WWII was a horrible, horrible war. And yeah, I always wonder why people ignore the fact that at least there was an actual big military base in Hiroshima. Like you say, people seem to ignore the indiscriminate bombing of civilians that went on in Europe (white people don't matter or something, idk).

In general I am of the opinion that while there is a lot of horror to atomic weaponry, it's not really the worst that humanity has come up with, sad to say. How do you quantify the death of somebody killed in an atomic blast vs. somebody napalmed to death vs. somebody hit with chemical weaponry?

It's not new that people would rather spout rhetoric based on emotions rather than logic or facts, though. And revisionist history seems to be on the rise across the board, lately.

[ariakas]

People have a special, unique terror of nuclear weapons. I'm not really sure why they think being vaporized is worse than being burned alive, but... they'd certainly have a point re: the environmental effects, but no one is talking about the environmental effects here, only the deaths. Which were greater in other bombings.

Later, when nuclear weapons gained the ability to obliterate life on earth more less, yes, that's terrifying, but... it also almost certainly stopped a catastrophic ground war that would have put WWII to shame between the US and the USSR through the threat of mutually assured destruction. It's more nuanced than anyone is making it out to be.

But then, this is the internet.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it has to do more with the shock of its sudden appearance on everybody's radar, combined with the very distinctive visuals of a nuclear blast. Other types of WMD were more "familiar".
Also, there have been strong campaigns about memory that stress the horrors of nuclear warfare specifically, and probably the Cold War and that feeling of "nuclear doom" hanging above the world helped cement it.

While obviously I think all forms of WMDs are horrifying, I do personally think the major damage of the nuclear bomb in comparison to others is environmental.
I don't know enough about modern weaponry, but it could be that it's also more destruction in a small package than other things? Though probably by now there are plenty of things like it.

Like you say, it's the nuance people are missing. From what I've learned, the US /was/ a bit trigger happy when it came to using it, and there were definite political aspects to ending the war just then - specifically edging the Soviet Union out of influencing Japan after the war, because it was pretty clear that Japan would lose one way or another. But this is only one aspect of the issue, and there were many more factors to take into account. Like the Japanese still being willing to fight, ongoing losses, I mean the Koreans weren't free yet either, and every year Japan was occupying them was doing more damage, and like you say the US-USSR conflict.

Ugh, that claim about the US dropping it on Japan and not Germany because of racism just makes me so angry.