@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:gIVEN THE FACT THt we killed immediately or doomed to a slow death several hundred thousand japanese civilians
No more than 200,000.
MontereyJack wrote:their secondary or tertiary military targets is pretty inconsequential.
Hiroshima was a huge military center with tens of thousands of soldiers awaiting deployment to the beaches to resist our coming invasion. It was also the military headquarters in charge of repelling that coming invasion.
The second atomic bomb was supposed to be dropped on Kokura Arsenal, a massive (4000 feet by 2100 feet) factory that was Japan's primary source of machine guns and machine gun ammo. Due to a variety or problems they had to divert to their alternate target at Nagasaki, where they destroyed two large torpedo factories (one for air-dropped torpedoes and one for naval torpedoes).
MontereyJack wrote:The revulsion worldwide at the effect of the bombing spurred the entire world to say NEVER AGIN. And for seventy years that has held.
OK.
It's a shame that bastard Eisenhower stopped Dr. Teller from building Sundial and Gnomon though. They would have been beautiful weapons.
MontereyJack wrote:tho trump was just a bit too eager to use them.
Hardly. He made no attempts to nuke anyone.
MontereyJack wrote:Which is why the joint chiefs acted to make sure he didn't use them, as they should have done in the name of humanity.
That was treason. They should be prosecuted. When Mr. Trump is reelected I'm sure they will be.