There's one thing I don't entirely agree on, and that was the detonation of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during WW2, does anyone disagree?
I think that President Truman made a huge mistake by doing that. He knew there were other options than slaughtering thousands of innocent Japanese lives. (They were relentless though).
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There's one thing I don't entirely agree on, and that was the detonation of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during WW2, does anyone disagree?
I think that President Truman made a huge mistake by doing that. He knew there were other options than slaughtering thousands of innocent Japanese lives. (They were relentless though).
I disagree 200%! It was war! The Japanese were being relentless, and It was taking too long to end the war. Truman did a great job by detonating the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. It's just too bad we didn't develop nuclear fusion and the hydrogen bomb until the 50s.. It could have been much worse.. In my opinion, we should have researched the neutron bomb and developed its technology completely. Hypothetically, It is a nuclear weapon that is supposed to kill people, but leave the buildings and infrastructure intact.
The nuclear bomb has also been considered as a political move to prevent the Russians from invading Japan, both to show the power of the US and to end the war before the Russians had a chance to get involved on that side. That way the US was able to build Japan into the capitalist nation it has come to be, without worrying about Russian communism during the reconstruction. I've not researched the theory myself, but it does make a lot of sense given the following 30 years of the Cold War against communism.
ah, yes. I forgot that aspect of it as well. Pretty much the end of ww2 started the cold war. And the nuke was what made the U.S. emerge from the war as a world power... The soviets were right on our tail from that moment on. Only 2-3 years behind in developing nuclear weapons, then the hydrogen bomb. And the launch of sputnik put the Soviets ahead of the Americans in the space race. However, the Americans were then the first to land on the moon (supposedly).
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