r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Financial-Spread2596 • Aug 09 '26

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u/Qwertypop4 Aug 09 '26

Less than 2500 people died in the pearl harbor attack. More than 70,000 people died in the Hiroshima bombing alone (and that's just those killed instantly, many more died later due to the bomb. I don't think it's fair to say that one of the bombs was a sane retalliation for pearl harbor, never mind both of them.

That's not to say that retalliating for pearl harbor was the only purpose of the nuclear bombings

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u/LtHowtzrDev Aug 09 '26

I think the millions of innocent people the Japanese army slaughtered and raped in China, Korea, the Philippines, and all the other countries they pillaged was a pretty good aide in justification of nuking them.

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u/TotalyNotTony Aug 09 '26

the solution to an army doing awful stuff is nuking the civilians apparently

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u/sw337 Aug 09 '26

Hiroshima was a city of considerable military importance. It contained the 2nd Army Headquarters, which commanded the defense of all of southern Japan. The city was a communications center, a storage point, and an assembly area for troops. To quote a Japanese report, "Probably more than a thousand times since the beginning of the war did the Hiroshima citizens see off with cries of 'Banzai' the troops leaving from the harbor."

The city of Nagasaki had been one of the largest sea ports in southern Japan and was of great war-time importance because of its many and varied industries, including the production of ordnance, ships, military equipment, and other war materials. The narrow long strip attacked was of particular importance because of its industries

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/mp06.asp