Take stock of yourself, nuke-head. I'm not looking for the WORST description of a pompous twat like you- just an apt description.
As for being smart- I'm not the nuke-head that lies and thinks it's OK to vaporize hundreds of thousands of civilians at a time. Best check your definition of ' smart '- 'cause you ain't it.
Haw, haw....................haw.
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
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moon (08-12-2020)
Wrong again. Everything that I've said is true.
Hiroshima was a huge military port with tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers awaiting deployment to resist our invasion of Kyushu.
Hiroshima was also the military headquarters responsible for repelling our invasion of Kyushu.
Kokura Arsenal was a huge (4100 feet by 2000 feet) weapons manufacturing complex.
I prefer to stay and make sure the truth has a voice.
Truth Detector (08-13-2020)
The truth isn't a lie, no matter how inconvenient you find it.
Hiroshima - This is an important army depot and port of embarkation in the middle of an urban industrial area. It is a good radar target and it is such a size that a large part of the city could be extensively damaged. There are adjacent hills which are likely to produce a focusing effect which would considerably increase the blast damage. Due to rivers it is not a good incendiary target. (Classified as an AA Target)
Kokura Arsenal - This is one of the largest arsenals in Japan and is surrounded by urban industrial structures. The arsenal is important for light ordnance, anti-aircraft and beach head defense materials. The dimensions of the arsenal are 4100' x 2000'. The dimensions are such that if the bomb were properly placed full advantage could be taken of the higher pressures immediately underneath the bomb for destroying the more solid structures and at the same time considerable blast damage could be done to more feeble structures further away. (Classified as an A Target)
Niigata - This is a port of embarkation on the N.W. coast of Honshu. Its importance is increasing as other ports are damaged. Machine tool industries are located there and it is a potential center for industrial dispersion. It has oil refineries and storage. (Classified as a B Target)
http://www.dannen.com/decision/targets.html
So far all you have done is try to undermine the truth.
Terrorists target civilians. The A-bomb targets were military ports and heavy war industry.
Truth Detector (08-13-2020)
The nukes were butchery, used to terrorize. No other description is accurate.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed. It will never be forgiven.
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
Do you have an estimate of how many people would have been killed, on both sides, if the US had gone ahead and invaded Japan "conventionally"? That was the original plan.
The only alternative would have been a total blockade of Japan until they capitulated. How many years and how many lives for that? Hell, it could still be going on.
It was an incredibly difficult question but Truman made the right decision. He also made the right decision later when he refused to use nukes in Korea.
Anvil Kasseri (08-13-2020), Truth Detector (08-13-2020)
That is incorrect. Terrorists target civilians. The A-bombs were dropped on military targets.
Tens of thousands of enemy soldiers were killed. The military headquarters in charge of repelling our invasion was destroyed. Large weapon factories were smashed.
Are you under some kind of illusion that there is anything here that requires forgiveness?
America is proud of the A-bombings. All those enemy soldiers and war factories wiped out in an instant. What would we need to be forgiven for?
Truth Detector (08-13-2020)
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