Re:Hiroshima (1946)
by magicsmoke on Sunday August 09, 2020 @08:55PM
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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.
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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.