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In reply to the discussion: Was the use of the atomic bomb against Japan justified? [View all]sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)I'm always kind of amused at how angry people get when you talk about different ways to kill. Dead is dead, if the allies had of played the waiting game and laid siege to the islands or kept bombing millions would have starved or frozen to death and it wouldn't have been the soldiers dying either.
People get up in arms when you talk about dropping a nuke but don't seem to be bothered watching a wing of B-17s obliterate 100 city blocks because they were aiming at the ball-bearing factory on the corner. That could partly be due to the very visible after effects of radiation poisoning, I mean you aren't just burying the dead the day after the bombing but doing it for quite awhile.
The number of civilians killed in WW2 absolutely dwarfs the number of people who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (50 million to 260,000).