Today marked the 70th anniversary of one of the most dramatic events ever seen. A minutes silence was held across Japan to remember the 140,000 dead in one city on one day. The Enola Gay a B-29 superfortress took off from Tinian the mission it performed resulted in the second ever nuclear explosion, the first use of nuclear munitions resulting in the destruction of the Japanese City of Hiroshima. A second similar weapon was deployed days later against Nagasaki resulting it that cities destruction. The Japanese surrender followed soon after the bombings drawing WW2 to it's close. The purpose of this thread is to discuss those events and more the consequences of those events. Please try and keep it civil this is for a discussion not a flamefest.
It's hard to have a discussion about it. Some troll will say we deserved it and it will spin out of control from there.
Hiroshima of course was the manufacturing place of the world's largest ever battleship, the Yamato. It's probably why it was bombed. Nagasaki, however, probably didn't deserve the bomb. It is in no way a military target.
Ship building is a major industry in Hiroshima. Many of world's biggest oil tankers are built in either Saijo or Mihara in Hiroshima.
They just hit those two because they were big in population. Like hitting New York City or Chicago etc
Nagasaki is not that big of a city. The initial target that day had bad weather conditions, so the Americans decided to drop it just anywhere.
Do you think someone who won't be civil about this topic will actually go when you ask them to leave? I wouldn't put that much faith in them.
The Japanese reasons for going to war are more complex and difficult to explain the the Germans. German went to war cause their leader was evil. Japanese leaders were less evil and more incredibly naive and stupid.
Let's avoid war whenever possible then. And when we must war, do it carefully. From what I've heard, the Americans dropped the bombs in order to get that quick surrender, to avoid a mass invasion of the main island of Japan. Frog also seems to be most consistent with what I know.