One thing before we start - IF THIS TURNS POLITICAL, I WILL KICK YOUR ***!!
Anyway, on to more serious things - Do you think the US should have dropped the bomb? Why or why not?
Please keep your posts intelligent. Thank you.
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One thing before we start - IF THIS TURNS POLITICAL, I WILL KICK YOUR ***!!
Anyway, on to more serious things - Do you think the US should have dropped the bomb? Why or why not?
Please keep your posts intelligent. Thank you.
well. it ended the war... and killed innocents... it was both good and bad.
they should of done it on base islands instead of cities...
A full-scale invasion of Japan would have cost millions more lives than if we dropped the bomb...
We should now discuss the politics of this bomb being dropped...
They had to, the war with the japs couldnt continue. The japs were also making some chemical kamikaze planes too.
It was the only way at the time, but still doesn't make it right to kill innocents (Well, massacre). A full scale invasion of Japan would've killed lots of Americans, but the nuke killed lots of Japanese people.
Also, the US was going to drop the nuke in a military base. Sadly, the team that was dropping the bomb dropped it in the wrong place ;p.
Even though it ended the war, victory for the US, it was not right. Was the smart choice war-wise, but the massacre of so many innocent people. It's just wrong.
yes they must used nukes to bombs on japan due to the fact that japan has not surrendered to the alllies while the other two Axis country germany an italy ill ready have surrendered but this didnt make japan ready for surrender but insstead it made them fight hard, cuz we bombed them and after a few years finally they surrendered ...see they how long from the day US bombed them to the day they surrendered??
this also leads to the post "is man good or bad " we had to bomb them for a good reason but in the other hand a bad reason
The whole point of the atomic bomb was to cause devastation that a nation couldn't recover from for many decades. In fact, attacking the civilian base essentially crushed all support for the Japanese during the war. It was the quickest way to end a war that had already cost tens of millions their lives, and could easily have escalated even further.
So yes, I do believe it was a semi-good idea, though 'massacre' is a fairly accurate way to portray the bombings.
This might have nothing with the debate to do, but have you guys heard of the man who survived both the nukes?
where u get that from?????????Quote:
Originally Posted by LaoOmologo
From my schoolbook.Quote:
Originally Posted by alkhest
But by nuking, America valued that American lives MUCH MUCH more than the Japanese lives, so much that they didn't care if they massacred hundreds of thousands of people!
Instead of nuke, why don't just send terror around Japan?
wow... I was the first no vote!
How? Seriously, how?Quote:
Originally Posted by LaoOmologo
magic pixie faries!Quote:
Originally Posted by KOOPS95
planting bombs everywhere using agents for example. No one would feel safe and that is also what Terrorism is all aboutQuote:
Originally Posted by KOOPS95
That'd cause civilians terror.Quote:
Originally Posted by LaoOmologo
Those dedicated Japanese Samurai Ninjas are hardcore. They aren't effected by terror.
yes, but what is worst? civilian terror or military terror?
What was causing America troubles were the strong mindset of the warriors of Japan. They didn't care if they died, they were dying for their country. Japan was just awesome like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by LaoOmologo
Japan lost like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalent
Should RUSSIA droped nukes on US oh YEAH!!!!
Yes but frighten civilians will eventually create frighten military. That was one of Rome's doomfactors
Because of the power of the Fat Man ;pQuote:
Originally Posted by criplockin
i still wonder how do you post pictures in the forum
nvm i found it i just click the picture at the bottom i think....
The nukes used in WW2 we're pathetically small compared to the megaton power of nuke technology just a few decades later. Do you think we would have had cold war if there was not a real historic example of the destructive power of nukes? I guarantee that the destruction unleashed by a launch in the 80's would have been far, far more destructive. The only thing that kept the nukes at bay was the assured mutual destruction.
The Soviet Union and America were kept at bay by the lesson learned in Japan. It was a lesson the world had to learn sometime. I'm just glad it was learned in the technology's infancy with a puny nuke, and not with todays modern mega-nukes.
go to advanced, click on the picture of some mountains and a sun, put in the url of the pic you want and doneQuote:
Originally Posted by raptor71383
That's what I wonder about Rota..
Why did we make nukes in the first place? Why do we have to make weapons of mass destruction?
We made that many because they made that many.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalent
They made that many because we made that many.
For the love of God... because we are a bunch of small :modedit: pyromancers who love destroying thingsQuote:
Originally Posted by Kalent
Fat or not, they got pwnt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalent
That's during the cold war, but men have always tried to get, bigger, better, and better looking weapons. Can we ever stop that without ending the world itself?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rota
We're destroying more nukes than we build, the new ones are just more powerful. I have no problem with technology advancing. There are countless technologies that make the world a better place that were invented during military research. Look at microwaves. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalent
True. During wartime, technology advances the fastest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rota
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Woot, 1500th post.
Kinda late to the draw, but we needed to drop the nukes, if we didn't japan would keep fighting and who knows what would happened if we didn't.
Gratz Kalent, its a big stepping stone, now you can tell your haters that you didnt spam like the rest of us to reach that mark :D
and yo, since i gotta add something, fat ben pwnt japan
body slam made the island fault to shift and cause mass bunnys hopping
i think that we dropped the nukes to show our power as a country, and to stun the world that, if you mess with the US then you can eat our nukes :P
What amazes me about Japan is their fast recovery from the bombs.
They made the recovery 30 years earlier than smart people hypothesized.
Is this true rota? 30 years?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalent