herodotus
Well-known member
Okay, don't get me wrong, there are at least 10,503* things to hate about the Enola Gay, but this one is "identity politics" laden "cancel culture" nonsense:
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1-10,500 are the approximate number of nuclear warheads held by the various nuclear powers on this planet that could, and probably eventually will, kill a lot of people and maybe all of us
10501 and 10502 are the destruction of two cities that had very little military value and were by and large undefended
10503 is because the bomb wasn't nearly as responsible for Japan's capitulation as Stalin's declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria in August 1945. So many people died in a pair of bombing that probably wasn't needed, but we will leave the efficacy and ethics of that terrible decision for another thread. This though, this is nonsense
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1-10,500 are the approximate number of nuclear warheads held by the various nuclear powers on this planet that could, and probably eventually will, kill a lot of people and maybe all of us
10501 and 10502 are the destruction of two cities that had very little military value and were by and large undefended
10503 is because the bomb wasn't nearly as responsible for Japan's capitulation as Stalin's declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria in August 1945. So many people died in a pair of bombing that probably wasn't needed, but we will leave the efficacy and ethics of that terrible decision for another thread. This though, this is nonsense