Were the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings the 20th century’s most defining events?

[canamlusciouslad73]

[Just_Ken]

Only. that it began the nuclear age and demonstrated the destructive power mankind has reached, power to destroy ourselves.

But they were entirely justified

[canamlusciouslad73]

They weren't justified in slaughtering untold hundreds of thousands of innocets. It was actrually a war crime.

[Just_Ken]

They werent innocent but participants in the war

[FrodoSkywalker007]

@canamlusciouslad73 would you have preferred Operation Downfall?

[Just_Ken]

@FrodoSkywalker007 if you look at Japanese civilian casualties on okinawa and iwa jima and the inevitable civilian from operation downfall you are talking tens of millions

[choco-latte]

WWII and the Cold War

[Anonymous]

Yes.

[Opinion Owner]

WW2 in general

[canamlusciouslad73]

But those were the first uses of nuclear weaponry.

[Iron_Man]

Probably