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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by throw0101d on Monday August 04, 2025 @09:37PM (#44793409)
> The singular horror of this event really is so difficult to describe, definitely one of the low points of human history which we must vow to never again repeat, under any circumstances.

Lower than the Holodomor? Lower than Dresden or Tokyo fire bombings? Lower than the Holocaust? Lower than Unit 731?

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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by emmelaich on Monday August 04, 2025 @10:55PM (#44793846)
Indeed! I can add "lower than the butchery and sadism of the Japanese forces in SE Asia?"
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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by Synaesthesia on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @04:36AM (#44795672)
It's the single worst moment in human history. Yes, those crimes were larger, but in terms of the worst instant of time, this has to take the cake.
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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by throw0101d on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @09:09PM (#44806516)
> It's the single worst moment in human history. Yes, those crimes were larger, but in terms of the worst instant of time, this has to take the cake.

The 9/10 March 1945 caused more death and damage as an individual event, even more than each of the atomic bombings:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_194...

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