Reply #257: Hiroshima contained many a military target

[nadinbrzezinski]

such as headquarters for an army group. IIRC the bomb hit close to it.

It also contianed a variety of other military bases

Yep by that same logic the town I live is a valid military target and if nuked, I hope it is quick

Nagasaki had several manufacturing facilties for military essential goods... and like bearing factories in Euroep was cosidered a valid target. Ironically it was not the main target on the day, since the primary target was cosidered a more valuable point, since it contained a large munitions storage facility

If you ever read the Geneva Convention you'd know that hitting an MHQ is a valid target. Now the collateral was a tad disgusting... and quite more serious than woudl have occurred with firebombing.

As to it ended the war, most mainstream historians accept this as a matter of fact. It has nothing to do with the Kool aid, but this was the last straw and the Emperor finally voted in the council and overrode Tojo and the war party. Some facts help at times

As to the least horrible option, Lynn I hate to point this to you but in some ways it may have been... and this statememt is only one taken with the distance of history and the knowledge of what the other options would have done... in deaths, in casualties and other factors

Now I will ask you the same thing... what are your options? Give me a good solid argument of why we should have carried out Operation Olympic.

Or give me a good solid option why we should have declared victory and gone home

I want the alternative hsitories to cover what would have happened in the Eastern Pacific for the next ten, twenty and fifty years.

Oh and I wil ask this in all seriousness, do you beleive that if the Japanese were able to develop the A Bomb they would not have dropped it on an American City? (Assuming they could reach it)