US government documents admit that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nu...

‘US government documents admit that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nuclear attack was the first strike in Washington's Cold War on the Soviet Union. Ben Norton reviews the historical record.’

  • culpritus [any]
    ·
    11 months ago

    plz explain how these bombs killing civilians and enslaved people achieved anything for these groups you mention, it is very unclear how those are logically connected in your mind

      • culpritus [any]
        ·
        11 months ago

        yes I know of these events

        according to all historical sources available with credibility today, the bombs did not hasten the end of the war with Japan - this is what "militarily unnecessary, morally reprehensible, or both" means

        even the wiki page says Unit 731 closed down in response to Soviet military successes, not the bombs

        As the Second World War started to come to an end, all prisoners within the compound were killed to conceal evidence, and there were no documented survivors.[102] With the coming of the Red Army in August 1945, the unit had to abandon their work in haste.

        the bombs did not have an impact in the way you seem to think at all as historically understood today

        the liberation of the peoples you speak of were due to the Soviets

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_War

        The Soviet–Japanese War (Russian: Советско-японская война; Japanese: ソ連対日参戦, romanized: soren tai nichi sansen, lit. 'Soviet Union entry into war against Japan'; Chinese: 苏日战争), known in Mongolia as the Liberation War of 1945 (Mongolian: 1945 оны чөлөөлөх дайн, romanized: 1945 ony chölöölökh dain), was a military conflict within the Second World War beginning soon after the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on 7 August 1945, followed by the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. The Soviets and Mongolians ended Japanese control of Manchukuo, Mengjiang (Inner Mongolia), northern Korea, Karafuto (South Sakhalin), and the Chishima Islands (Kuril Islands). The defeat of Japan's Kwantung Army helped bring about the Japanese surrender and the termination of World War II.[11][12] The Soviet entry into the war was a significant factor in the Japanese government's decision to surrender unconditionally, as it was made apparent that the Soviet Union was not willing to act as a third party in negotiating an end to hostilities on conditional terms.