The US fucked Japan like I fuck the ass of the fat chicks. Voilently without remorese. 250k dead in Tokyo alone. My grandfather still hates the nips and if he sees one he would kill them just for sport. And take their ears and add it to his necklace.
People forget how destructive the conventional firebombing of Japan was. We destroyed Tokyo and other major cities without a single atomic weapon, just by sending squadrons of B-29s with incendiary weapons.
The nuclear bomb target cities were picked from the ones that were not hit by heavy conventional bombardment.
The bombing of Nagasaki was actually a huge clusterfuck. The plane was supposed to bomb another city, and was seconds away from doing so, but could not make visual contact with the target due to a fortuitous fire. So they flew to Nagasaki and dropped it there. They almost ran out of fuel on the way back home.
Nagasaki was a horrible target for an atomic bomb - the city's layout meant that the surrounding hills absorbed much of the blast and it killed fewer people than Hiroshima despite being a more powerful bomb.
Date: December 27th, 2016 12:39 AM Author: motley dilemma
there's an anime that takes place during the firebombing, i think i saw it a couple decades ago
barefoot gen happens after one of the A bombs, but there's an anime where there's this horrific scene of people burning and fighting to get to the river through tokyo to escape the fire bombing but they're all dying anyway because the fire is sucking all the oxygen out of the city
Date: December 27th, 2016 12:40 AM Author: motley dilemma
bc the guy who actually made the decision, truman, really did not want to drop any bombs and regretted it his whole life, going so far as to suggest the world would be a better place if he had kept on pursuing his dream of becoming a concert pianist
if we had had enough material to drop three bombs, we would have exploded the first off the coast to avoid casualties, that's how much truman did NOT want to use the bombs, but bc we only had enough material for two, that was it