- 05 Sep 2012 05:12
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I can't separate Justification for inflicting mass casualties on an enemy from the perspective of the combatants and all those in the target zone. In my mind the question becomes to whom is it Justified or unjustified?
For the Japanese that experienced those events and survived with massive burns, to the thousands that were contaminated with black-rain and suffered for years with results of radiation poisoning, birth defects. Then of course there is the social stigma of having been nuked or being descended from someone that was. For those the bombs can absolutely never be justified.
But then what of the Allied soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines that were to take part in operation Olympic and operation Coronet? 300,000 more graves and another 300,000 wounded and a hundred thousand or more psychological injuries. Then there is the effect on the millions back home in Jerk-Water USA that lost family members or have to face a life caring for an angry Quad. So to all those people the bombs were absolutely Justified.
As far as I am concerned the question, "Was the nuclear strike on Imperial Japan justifiable" doesn't have just one answer because those answers are entirely dependent on the perspective of the observer.
For the Japanese that experienced those events and survived with massive burns, to the thousands that were contaminated with black-rain and suffered for years with results of radiation poisoning, birth defects. Then of course there is the social stigma of having been nuked or being descended from someone that was. For those the bombs can absolutely never be justified.
But then what of the Allied soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines that were to take part in operation Olympic and operation Coronet? 300,000 more graves and another 300,000 wounded and a hundred thousand or more psychological injuries. Then there is the effect on the millions back home in Jerk-Water USA that lost family members or have to face a life caring for an angry Quad. So to all those people the bombs were absolutely Justified.
As far as I am concerned the question, "Was the nuclear strike on Imperial Japan justifiable" doesn't have just one answer because those answers are entirely dependent on the perspective of the observer.
KMA