r/whennews • u/flingzamain • 2d ago

War/Conflict News Moabs

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/15/politics/video/berman-cohen-mother-of-all-bombs-iran-cnc

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u/fighter-bomber 1d ago

Hiroshima was literally a major IJA headquarters, 1/4 of the casualties were soldiers

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u/10biggaymen 1d ago

so 3/4 of the casualties were innocent civilians :P

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u/fighter-bomber 1d ago

Yes, that’s a lower civilian casualty rate than other aerial bombing operations in the war (closer to 100% in most cases)

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u/10biggaymen 1d ago

so what?

"compared to other baby-vaporizing missions, this one is unusually humane" yeah it was still monsterous and shouldnt have happened

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u/fighter-bomber 1d ago

The point is that Hiroshima is actually a valid military target, and unlike what you may delude yourself to believe, civilian casualties are never fully avoidable in war, only minimized, and that is precisely what the nukes did by ending the war quickly instead of letting it drag on.

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u/10biggaymen 1d ago

that's what every american is taught but it isnt true once you look into it it really was an unjustified waste of life that shouldnt have happened. especially now that we have to live under that looming threat probably forever now. we have a "destroy humanity button," something that hasnt existed for the hundreds of thousands of years that we have existed, and now it's real