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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by pmoleri on Sunday August 09, 2020 @08:11PM (#24104102)
> Which if it had continued, could have consumed far more lives.

Everything along these lines are counterfactual excercises and a nice way of justify the crime of dropping nuclear bombs on cities full of civilians. I don't buy this. And something we all know is that history is told by the victors.

Re:Hiroshima (1946) by magicsmoke on Sunday August 09, 2020 @08:55PM (#24104352)
Tokyo was already firebombed and terror bombing of civilian cities was a tactic used by all sides in WW2. If bombing civilians is a war crime, then everyone in WW2 is a war criminal. As for the civilian getting bombed, whether the fire melting their flesh away has a hint of radioactivity is a really minor addition.
Re:Hiroshima (1946) by pmoleri on Sunday August 09, 2020 @09:20PM (#24104535)
That kind of reasoning can be used to justify all kind of things that are considered crimes. Wipe out 200K in one action just to show power seems too much. I don't accept that the amount of creativity used to create weapons cannot be applied also to use them more wisely in ways that don't wipe out 200k.