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Re:Radioactive Hulk of Carrier USS Independence Found Off Sa... by tehjoker on Sunday May 12, 2019 @03:06PM (#19893774)
It's worth noting that European fascism was mostly defeated by the Red Army at the expense of millions of lives, not the US which got into it late. In the Pacific sphere, there is fairly convincing evidence that the bomb was not at all necessary to convince Japan to surrender that is worth reading about:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-jap...

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Re:Radioactive Hulk of Carrier USS Independence Found Off Sa... by dTal on Sunday May 12, 2019 @03:25PM (#19893905)
More relevant to the assessment of the morality of dropping The Bomb is whether it was reasonable to think it was necessary at the time.

(I can't confidently assert that one way or the other, though I'm sure opinions differed even then)

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Re:Radioactive Hulk of Carrier USS Independence Found Off Sa... by proctor on Sunday May 12, 2019 @06:23PM (#19894966)
this reminds me of the documentary "the fog of war"[0] in which robert macnamara talks about the conventional type bombing of japan's cities with firebombs before using any atom bomb.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War

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