re: We are now 81 years removed from Hiroshima...

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We could have done more damage by dropping a bunch of democrats

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this is more or less how Germany knocked Russia out of WW1

I believe it was "BocksCar" that dropped on Nagasaki.

On a purely human level, what an absolute pitiful statement about our species that horrific conflict between us and Japan was. I will never know what Imperial Japan thinking-just pure hubris and barbaric savagery on display-what they did in Manchuria being exhibit A. These were two countries and cultures that should never have been at odds-and frick Imperial Japan for a thousand reasons.

So happy that they are now possibly our greatest and most non-controversial ally-that MacArthur and Truman/Eisenhower played it just right, and that the Japanese people were able to build that country into what it is today. If you haven't been-I urge you to take a couple weeks away from Tokyo-and explore that amazing country.

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But Hiroshima was not about ending the war. It was about sending a message to Stalin and the Soviet Union.

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There was a segment of the government that believed that they had to drop it because they had spent so much money and effort on the development.

The bottom line is that dropping the bomb did save lives, but there are some interesting rabbit holes to go down regarding some of the claims made to support it.