Ah, now I see. They didn't really have the best guidance systems back then.
Not that they needed to be very accurate with what they were dropping though.
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Ah, now I see. They didn't really have the best guidance systems back then.
Not that they needed to be very accurate with what they were dropping though.
Olive Drab Green
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It was like.. A reverse-periscope bombsight. Not very precision at all.
Olive Drab Green
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Why have nuclear weapons never been used again?
Padawanbater2
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...they have
Are you really going to sit here and play stupid?
Why have nuclear weapons never been used against an enemy after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed?
Padawanbater2
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There you go
And probably for the same reason carpet bombing and napalm have been banned in war; because it kills a shitload of civilians. Targeting civilians is against the law
Sounds like a good reason to apologize.
You can pick up your participation ribbon on the way out the front door.
Thanks for playing.
The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not To End the War Or Save Lives.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-real-reason-america-used-nuclear-weapons-against-japan-it-was-not-to-end-the-war-or-save-lives/5308192
Admiral William Leahy – the highest ranking member of the U.S. military from 1942 until retiring in 1949, who was the first de facto Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and who was at the center of all major American military decisions in World War II – wrote (pg. 441):
It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.
The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.
General Douglas MacArthur agreed (pg. 65, 70-71):
MacArthur’s views about the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were starkly different from what the general public supposed …. When I asked General MacArthur about the decision to drop the bomb, I was surprised to learn he had not even been consulted. What, I asked, would his advice have been? He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.
Why Then Were Atom Bombs Dropped on Japan?
If dropping nuclear bombs was unnecessary to end the war or to save lives, why was the decision to drop them made? Especially over the objections of so many top military and political figures?
One theory is that scientists like to play with their toys:
On September 9, 1945, Admiral William F. Halsey, commander of the Third Fleet, was publicly quoted extensively as stating that the atomic bomb was used because the scientists had a “toy and they wanted to try it out . . . .” He further stated, “The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment . . . . It was a mistake to ever drop it.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-real-reason-america-used-nuclear-weapons-against-japan-it-was-not-to-end-the-war-or-save-lives/5308192
Admiral William Leahy – the highest ranking member of the U.S. military from 1942 until retiring in 1949, who was the first de facto Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and who was at the center of all major American military decisions in World War II – wrote (pg. 441):
It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.
The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.
General Douglas MacArthur agreed (pg. 65, 70-71):
MacArthur’s views about the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were starkly different from what the general public supposed …. When I asked General MacArthur about the decision to drop the bomb, I was surprised to learn he had not even been consulted. What, I asked, would his advice have been? He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.
Why Then Were Atom Bombs Dropped on Japan?
If dropping nuclear bombs was unnecessary to end the war or to save lives, why was the decision to drop them made? Especially over the objections of so many top military and political figures?
One theory is that scientists like to play with their toys:
On September 9, 1945, Admiral William F. Halsey, commander of the Third Fleet, was publicly quoted extensively as stating that the atomic bomb was used because the scientists had a “toy and they wanted to try it out . . . .” He further stated, “The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment . . . . It was a mistake to ever drop it.”
Padawanbater2
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Have you called the PC police and filed a report yet?
Smidge34
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They did a lot worse than bomb Pearl.
http://listverse.com/2014/05/06/10-japanese-atrocities-from-world-war-ii/
Fogdog
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@ThickStemz , please take that like off my post. It looks like a dog turd under my posting which I would clean up but I can't.
They surrendered.
Kasuti
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They surrendered but many of their generals wanted to keep fighting. The boshido ( think that's the correct spelling) code of honor called for death before dishonor and soldiers who surrendered were considered cowards who not only disgraced themselves, but their whole families.
They should of just stabbed themselves in the face then.
They dont want your ass at family bbq's anyway so just fall on that sword and be a hero.
And as the entire world saw, they were full of shit.
WeedFreak78
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It was a test of its lethality, then a confirmation of that lethality. Most everything I've read says we pretty much carpet bombed the cities to non existence anyway, and Japan was already talking to the US about surrender. Our whole involvement in Japan was suspect, supposedly we knew well in advance the attack on pearl Harbor was coming and allowed it happen so we could engage Japan.