Most of us were taught we did it for the greater good. I had no idea the general consensus was that this was a bad thing until now

I agree especially with Japan never surrendering. It was like going 15 rounds with Tyson in Europe and then immediately having to go another 15 with Mayweather lol. America was really limited on options at the time

we really got mad racists itt lmfaooo. "its in their blood" what the f*** kinda s*** is this

Notice how anyone saying yes itt has ZERO realistic alternatives lol.

u can’t justify this, you’re literally scaring the hoes

yes

unit 731 was terrible so in return we needed to kill 200k civilians while granting unit 731 immunity

y'all are out of your minds.

Ok Mr. "I can't blame nukes use if (insert whatever reason)..."

ummm... the Nanjing Massacre?

I’m sayin though why y’all acting like Japan was innocent

yes absolutely indefensible and one of the greatest war crimes in history. also the other non nuclear bombing on japan that similarly killed hundreds of thousands and causing massive damage

imagine how different the perception would be if it was the Nazis who used the bomb on an allied country. "Suppose Germany had developed two bombs before we had any bombs. And suppose Germany had dropped one bomb, say, on Rochester and the other on Buffalo, and then having run out of bombs she would have lost the war. Can anyone doubt that we would then have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and that we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them?"

people are acting like the japanese civilians were innocent

The soldiers at Pearl Harbor were innocent

Still waiting on that alternative

how many japanese military officers who participated in that massacre were killed by the atomic bombs?

how many scientists of unit 731?

now another another question, when we had the actual capacity to make unit 731 pay for their crimes, what did we do?

its absolutely f***ing hilarious you claim to be a historian.

so were the people in the philippines, but macarthur let the japanese kill them anyway

Aye man Japan pulled the US into the War they wanted smoke and they got it

They are taking the humanity side which I cant argue with because I understand. I'm not screaming "MERICA drop the bombs" proudly. I understand the checkmate move they did I just hate the fact it came at the expense of many innocent people.

some of y'all are either literally sick in the head or just so far gone into the propaganda.

the numbers aren't even close, hard to really make that comparison imo. a few thousand dead from an attack on a military base vs. hundreds of thousands of civilians killed and entire cities pretty much destroyed

uhhhh coughs Bataan Death March

The easy alternative was to let the soviets deal with them. You still get the same outcome.