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No...the nuking of two cities full of innocent civilians was more agreeable than a land invasion that would cost untold more lives on both sides. The sad part about war is no one wins...you only lose less than the other guy.

More people died during the fire bombings of the UK and Germany then died in Japan. You're also looking at the event given what we know about nuclear weapons today. You can't judge the ethics or morality of the past given modern sensibilities.

Given what we knew about nuclear weapons and their effects, given the ENORMOUS casualties (both military and civillian) a traditional war would have meant, given that Japan was the AGGRESSOR in the pacific theater, not just in attacking the United States but the attacking of her neighbors, the brutal treatment that those occupied territories were subjected to (everyone knows about what the Nazis and the Soviets did, but what the Japanese did was easily equal to anything done in Europe)... I think the Americans were justified in dropping the bombs.

And given the fact that the political and industrial leaders responsible for the war were let off by MacArthur... I really don't think the Japanese have anything to complain about.

If you want to know about the horrors of the effects of the nuclear blasts, ask the surviving Japanese and Koreans (Yes, there were Koreans living in Japan who were victims of the bombs) still living in Japan who are social outcasts and who are even abandoned by the Japanese government.

I don't think you even bothered to read my post. But that's okay. It's the internet and people usually don't get past the 3rd sentence before they make sweeping conclusions.

Exactly. The Rape of Nanking should be read by all who think they have an informed opinion about what happened in the Pacific during WWII. What the Japanese did is disgusting, horrible, perverted, and inhuman.

Go ahead and check out The Nanjing Massacre by Konda Katsuichi and A Plague Upon Humanity by Daniel Barenblatt. If you're not the reading type, check out that documentary 'Nanking' on DVD. If you're really up for a challenge, try and get a hold of 'Japanese Devils,' a Japanese-made documentary from 2001 that Japan has actively tried to muffle. Want a more cinematic flare to it all? Check out 'Devils at the Doorstep,' (it's a black comedy, YOU'LL LOVE IT)!

Let me paint it out for you. What Japan is doing now is the equivalent of Germany, as a country, publicly denying the Holocaust and the Hitler's decree for mass genocide. How would you feel if Germany erected a shrine to celebrate the bravery of Hitler? Hm? Well, Japan has a shrine celebrating their war heroes that were guilty of war crimes.

So yea, until Japan apologizes, who gives a shit what they have to say about refrigerators in Indy 4? Bringing up the monkey scene is a whole different story, though...

Because it was totally Wily E. Coyote.

That's terrible and hilarious.

^ what he said ^

Yes, that's the point. The world was very cavalier about the effects of radiation back then. They had x-ray machines in shoe stores you could stick your feet in to see how the shoe fit. People would sit on rooftops and watch nuclear tests with little more than sunglasses to protect themselves.

The whole POINT of that scene was to mock how naive and preposterous our notions of the atom were back then.