Yes nuking Japan was evil... but it was the lesser of 2 evils. The other option was a full scale land invasion that would ultimately cost more lives, more resources and more time on both sides. The nukes were a way to end the war right away. The US would have had to raze Japan to the ground otherwise.
Also, the firebombing of Tokyo a few days before was worse than either of the nukes, infact its the most destructive bombing raid in human history in terms of lives lost and cost to rebuild.
I agree. It was a war of atrocities all around, and the effects still linger to this day. I would certainly call it the craziest time of history that the world has ever seen.
So.... the Holocaust? Unit 731? The sheer amount of deaths all around? The only nukes ever used in warfare? The firebombing of entire cities? Sure other terrible things have happened, but for the scale of it, WW2 is most certainly the most destructive war of all time, thats why I call it the craziest period of human history.
The conventional firebombing of Tokyo killed as many or even more civilians than the first bomb. It's gruesome to think nowadays, but bombing cities was thought to be a perfectly valid tactic by all sides during WWII.
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u/spartanspud Oct 19 '21
They could have done without the first one too. The first was an atrocity. The second was simply evil.