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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by sydd on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @05:02AM (#18541005)
> But these are luxuries afforded to people with the Internet and decades of time to analyze the situation that President Truman did not have.

This is a bit like forgiving Nazis because they did not have the internet to read about Jews that they are not so evil.

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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by ReptileMan on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @05:11AM (#18541041)
No - it was use nukes or waste 250000 to 500000 US lives (and possibly allow Stalin to occupy half of japan) to make them surrender.
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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by sydd on Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:09AM (#18559400)
According to the official U.S. standpoint. According to others Japan was already on the verge of collapse - supply chains broken, morale very low and all their allies were surrendering.

Its very much possible the Japan would have surrendered a few months later anyway if the US does keeps up the sea blockade and does a few more normal bombing runs.

NOTHING justifies killing 200.000 civilians, its a war crime.

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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by ReptileMan on Thursday November 29, 2018 @02:01PM (#18562828)
I doubt that they would have surrendered in couple of months in a way that would have not exposed Americans to risk of losing their lives.
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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by clarkmoody on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:33AM (#18543053)
Perhaps there were more than two options?
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