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View over the Japanese city of Hiroshima after an atomic bomb was dropped on the city (1945) (upload.wikimedia.org)
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The Hiroshima bombing was one of two atomic attacks on Japan which effectively ended the Second World War and killed about 140,000 to 220,000 inhabitants in the short term.

Author: U.S. Navy Public Affairs Resources Website

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[–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How wasn't this a war crime?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    It was. But it's OK if the winners do it, apparently.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Americans like to claim that an invasion of Japan would've led to much worse casualties on both sides, so the atomic bombings were the lesser evil. But a war crime is a war crime.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Also it's just a flat out lie. They had negociated with the USSR for a ground invasion, which was ready and about to launch.

    They only dropped the nukes to try and shock the Japanese and get a surrender without Japan falling to communism.

    Which didn't work by the way, the japanese weren't really shocked by the bombings, they had gone through years of civilians getting absolutely massacred by conventional bombings. They surrendered because they had exhausted all their resources, which the nukes had little to do with.

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