Questions: Society & Politics

Oppenheimer won best picture. I've not seen the movie yet, but we all know the story.

I wonder... how do people view the atomic bombing of Japan... especially Japanese viewpoint.

Why?

Because from a USA perspective... without those bombings, we would have had to send in a million plus soldiers into mainland Japan to over take the military and get to the emperor. If you know the mess of Okinawa and Iwo Jima... one can only imagine. They did not want to surrender and Japanese soldiers would fight to the last man... they were serving their "god" at that time and shaming the emperor and family was worse than death. The toll would have been high and long until someone convinced a surrender.

In Japan... the reality of " the bomb" would have been awful. One can only imagine.

And so one wonders the perspective... because humanity is always faced with..."is it worth it" "did we do the right thing... to bring an end"?

The bombs were largely used against civilians... 129000 to 226,000 people died... instantly. Carpet bombing prior had cost up to 330,000 lives.

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Bonus history: Albert Einstein, whom started the idea rolling with "E=Mc2" figured out a small amount of material can produce a lot of energy... met the emperor of Japan decades before WWII!

Bonus history II: A distant relative of mine was killed by a Japanese aircraft bomb in mainland China. May she rest in peace.

All is good... the lesson to me is... humans need to think, because all of this was unnecessary wasn't it? We are much better working together cooperatively.

This quote comes from a 1966 fictional novel called 'The Fixer' by Bernard Malamud. It's about a Jewish man in the 1910s Tsarist Russia (in kiev, Ukraine now) who was wrongfully accused, is arrested and imprisoned and reused to confess. It's ultimately about antisemitism and the dangers it poses. The book was pulled from school libraries in 2022 south carolina, but was returned after further review.

Anyways what do you think of this quote?

Just read how Russia had basically stopped helping their citizens. Most likely to keep cost down and billionaire oligarchs rich.