Re:History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during Wor...
by PaulHoule on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @10:30AM
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(1) Because it's part of a general hatchet job against nuclear energy
(2) It erases history. Really crazy stuff went down during the Korean war and people don't know about it. If the Japanese had spent 1% of the effort making amends for their crimes against China and other Asian countries that's gone into hand wringing over Hiroshima things would be very different in Asia today. It's nearly forgotten that the U.S. was slow to demobilize after WWII because it thought war against the Soviet Union was likely, and it was just as much a goal to intimidate the Soviets as it was to intimidate the Japanese.
(2) It erases history. Really crazy stuff went down during the Korean war and people don't know about it. If the Japanese had spent 1% of the effort making amends for their crimes against China and other Asian countries that's gone into hand wringing over Hiroshima things would be very different in Asia today. It's nearly forgotten that the U.S. was slow to demobilize after WWII because it thought war against the Soviet Union was likely, and it was just as much a goal to intimidate the Soviets as it was to intimidate the Japanese.