Re:History vs. Hollywood: Oppenheimer
by pjc50 on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:50AM
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The nuclear bombs were not as deadly as the firebombing of Tokyo. Or the siege of Leningrad.
At that time, nukes were simply a difference of degree, not of kind, from the ongoing use of strategic bombing with incendiaries and explosives against population centres by all sides in the conflict. Perhaps the real crossing of the line into mass murder was at Guernica, in 1937, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Guernica
The problem with trying to pick apart the morality of individual actions in WW2 is that wherever you look for context you find more atrocities.
At that time, nukes were simply a difference of degree, not of kind, from the ongoing use of strategic bombing with incendiaries and explosives against population centres by all sides in the conflict. Perhaps the real crossing of the line into mass murder was at Guernica, in 1937, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Guernica
The problem with trying to pick apart the morality of individual actions in WW2 is that wherever you look for context you find more atrocities.