Re:Seismologically unsound as well(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.11.05 4:36 (#13952347) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2005.11.04 3:23)
When I was young or much younger than now I am, I read many articles related to the justification of enforcing an atomic bomb over the sky of Hiroshima, Nagasaki.
Their points were concentrated on two,
1. The use of atomic bomb acceralated the end of war.
2. The death toll of Hiroshima was less than the death toll caused by the big fire after incendiary bombs were used as a carpet bombing in Tokyo.
But probably I have to add one more on the list of justification -
3. The atomic bomb in Nagasaki saved millions of Japanese, if it had been dropped over Kokura, Japan would have disappeared from the map.
We dropped the bomb in Nagasaki, it was in fact good or at least better much better than the worst case -dropping the bomb in Kokura.
This is similar meta-phychology -we killed more people in one night in Tokyo Air Raid, certainly less people were killed in Hiroshima by atomic bomb, so it was good at least better than the worse case -air raid in Tokyo.
Probably in 1970s, those kinds of justification were told among American people. I don't know whether the story is based on scientific research though if it were true we Japanese have to say thank you for dropping a bomb not in Kokura but in Nagasaki.
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