That there was cause to use nuclear weapons is a myth. That there could again be cause to use nuclear weapons is a myth. That we can survive significant further use of nuclear weapons is a myth. That there is cause to produce nuclear weapons even though you’ll never use them is too stupid even to be a myth. And that we can forever survive possessing and proliferating nuclear weapons without someone intentionally or accidentally using them is pure insanity.
Shout out to my high school history teacher who said the US dropped the bomb to make sure Japan surrendered before the USSR could get officially involved, so they wouldn’t have to share in concessions.
My high school history teacher was a huge :LIB: by this site’s standards, but he was a vocal critic of the Iraq War, emphasized the scale and importance of the Eastern Front in WW2, and taught us about how laissez-faire brainworms were a huge cause of the Great Depression and it was pressure from socialists that gave us social security and medicare. By far the most based teacher in my shitty small town.
Nukes are the only thing preventing America from going full WW3 on China and Russia.
see also: The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan, Stalin Did
staid establishment source Foreign Policy nicely digestible for many libs
This reminds me of a struggle session back on the old sub about whether using nuclear weapons was justified. Really telling to see the amount of interalized imperialism so many people had. :brainworms:
A poll of the U.S. scientists who had developed the bombs, taken prior to their use, found that 83% wanted a nuclear bomb publicly demonstrated prior to dropping one on Japan. The U.S. military kept that poll secret. General Douglas MacArthur held a press conference on August 6, 1945, prior to the bombing of Hiroshima, to announce that Japan was already beaten.
The article just gets darker from there. Amerika has always been oportunistic and craven.
