re: On this day in 1945, the city of Nagasaki is wiped off the face of the earth...

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Complete failure of humanity

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Boo hoo. shite happens.

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Mass murder done by the United States government

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This isn't wrong, but dropping the bombs also prevented what would have been an absolute massacre of US/Allied troops and Japanese civilians on the Japanese mainland.

Where is Lee Greenwood on today's Anniversary?

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It's fascinating to me that so many peoples fates that day and at Hiroshima were so tied to the weather. More cloud cover here or less there and today no one would really know the name of either city.

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Nagasaki was actually Bockscar’s secondary target. The primary target was Kokura. But smoke from a nearby conventional bombing raid in Yahata the night before along with cloud cover obscured Kokura to the point Bockscar went on to its backup target, Nagasaki. But even there it was a near run thing. For one thing, Bockscar developed a fuel pump issue. There was also cloud cover over Nagasaki. They had to make multiple runs before finding a break in the cloud cover to make a visual bomb drop. They were so shot of fuel they had to make an emergency landing at Okinawa. When the B-29 landed, they had seven gallons of fuel left.

Also, the city was not “wiped off the face of the earth.” The bomb was dropped over the industrial section of town in the Urakami Valley. The rest of the city was shielded from the blast by a ridge line.

They fricked around and found out

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That didn’t take long. Always a few people like you.

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Killing tens of thousands of civilians is mass murder.

Not sure how else you describe it