Everything that I've said is true.
Fake news. Never happened.
We "knew" no such falsehood. What Japan wanted was to end the war in a draw without surrendering.
We had no control over whether Japan surrendered.
Had we such control, we would have had Japan surrender to us in 1941.
We had no such interest.
Hiroshima was a huge military center with tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers. It was Japan's primary military port, and the port that launched all their invasions of neighboring countries.
Hiroshima had more soldiers than any Japanese city other than Tokyo (which was much much larger). Hiroshima had the highest soldier/civilian ratio of any of Japan's major cities.
Hiroshima was also the headquarters in charge of repelling our coming invasion.
The second atomic bomb was intended for Kokura Arsenal, which was a massive (4100 feet by 2000 feet) factory complex that built all of Japan's light machine guns, heavy machine guns, 20mm antiaircraft guns, and the ammo for all those guns.
Unfortunately due to a lot of bad luck the second atomic bomb was diverted to the secondary target, Nagasaki, which was a shipbuilding town that made some of Japan's largest warships.
At Nagasaki, the second atomic bomb destroyed the torpedo factory that had made the specialized torpedoes designed for defeating Pearl Harbor's natural defenses.
Hiroshima was chosen as an atomic target early in the bombing campaign when only a handful of cities had been destroyed. Thereafter it was off limits to conventional bombing.
Nagasaki had a natural immunity to conventional bombing because it was hard to locate on the radar that was used to guide our massive nighttime incendiary raids.
Circular logic is bad logic.
We did target military bases and weapons factories.
The destruction of the torpedo factory was quite thorough. The destruction of the military headquarters was as well.
20,000 Japanese soldiers were killed at Hiroshima.
Not given that actual fact that Japan had ten thousand kamikazes waiting to pounce on our invasion.
No reality there. Japan had ten thousand kamikazes ready to pounce on our invading forces.
The ten thousand kamikaze planes had enough fuel for a single one-way flight. They were training people to pilot them and target troop transports.
The state of their interceptor fleet is no reflection on the ten thousand kamikazes that they had waiting for us.
Actually we knew about the two million soldiers they had waiting to repel our invasion.
If that is what defeated them, it's funny how they didn't surrender.
We were not the ones who were drawing it out. We had no control over Japan's refusal to surrender.
Your holocaust denial is repugnant and despicable.
A minimum of 100,000 people every month were dying under Japanese occupation.
No such lies.
And you might want to consider some of the various genocides before you start loosely throwing around accusations about the worst war crimes in history.
Yes they did. Their first surrender offer came only after both atomic bombs had already been dropped.
Fake news. Never happened.
That is preposterous nonsense.
If economic sanctions were war crimes, we could have lawfully reacted to the 1970s oil embargoes by invading the Middle East and taking their oil by force.
This is silly. The ability to flatten an entire city is one of the most notable properties of a nuclear explosion.
That was a lot farther than the lethal radiation extended.
That is incorrect. Explosive shock is the main effect.
I've never seen a breakdown of radiation deaths versus non-radiation deaths.
That is incorrect. We were planning to invade in a few months if Japan had kept refusing to surrender.
Everything you said was wrong.
Clearly the Japanese did not want to surrender in 1941 because they still had food, fuel, and ability to fight.
But that quickly ended after 1943 when we mined the waters between Japan and Asia.
From then on, Japan was desperate to surrender, and it was only our reluctance to let them surrender, that kept the war going.
The atomic bombs had essentially no effect at all on the Japanese desire to surrender, and they were insignificant.
We killed far more with every conventional air attack than we did with any atomic attack.
What cause the Japanese to end the war was the mining of the waters to Asia in 1943.
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Honolulu, Hawaii · October 29, 1943
In World War II’s Pacific Theater, sea mines—explosive underwater devices that damaged, sank, or deterred Japanese warships, submarines, and maritime commerce—were weapons that had difficulty gaining the same respect as guns, bombs, and torpedoes enjoyed in the U.S. arsenal. Over time, however, a small number of mining advocates in both the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army Air Forces influenced their service bosses enough to ensure the growth of offensive mine-laying, equipment development, and combat experience.
On this date in 1943 U.S. submarines began mining the waters off French Indochina. The following March the U.S. Navy mounted a direct aerial mining attack on Japanese shipping on Palau Island in the Western Pacific, which stopped 32 Japanese ships from escaping Palau’s harbor. Combined with bombing and strafing attacks, the operation sank or damaged 36 ships.
The most successful mining operations were those conducted by the Allied air forces laying aerial minefields. Beginning with a very successful attack on the Yangon River in Burma (Myanmar) in February 1943, B‑24 Liberators, PBY Catalinas, and other available bomber aircraft took part in localized mining operations in the China Burma India (CBI) Theater and in the Southwest Pacific (Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Borneo, New Guinea, and the western Solomon Islands). British and Royal Australian air forces carried out 60 percent of the sorties and the U.S. Army Air Forces and U.S. Navy carried out the balance. U.S. Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid, who directed nearly all RAAF mining operations in the CBI, wrote in July 1944 that “aerial mining operations were of the order of 100 times as destructive to the enemy as an equal number of bombing missions against land targets.”
The U.S. mining effort against the Japanese Home Islands proved very successful, closing major ports like Hiroshima on Western Honshū, the largest Home Island, for days. At best, the Japanese succeeded in sweeping only about 50 percent of American acoustic mines (they measured sound of certain frequencies). Pressure mines, the most commonly used against Japan near the end of the war, were even more difficult to sweep. By war’s end, more than 25,000 U.S.-laid sea mines were still in place. Over the next 30 years, more than 500 minesweepers were damaged or sunk in continuing clearance efforts.
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It is downright silly to claim there were military objectives in Hiroshima or Nagasaki, because there really were no more military objectives anywhere in Japan, as they had all already been obliterated,
There were NO Japanese aircraft capable of trying to intercept a single bomber.
We had total free will to the air, anyway or place we wanted.
And trying to be deliberately obtuse does not make you seem very smart.
When OPEC sets prices, that is NOT "economic sanctions".
Economic sanctions are when you prohibit trade with others by the use of force, like we did to Iraq in 2002, to Cuba, or recently to Russia.
The US is prohibiting others from civilian trade, and that is a totally illegal war crime.
It was illegal to sink Japanese ships carrying civilian food back to Japan during WWII.
Your claim that there was constant deaths from Japanese occupation is totally false.
The main cause of death near the end of the war was the US destruction of shipping.
It does not take a physicist to understand that 95% of atomic bomb deaths are from radiation.
Almost no one dies instantly.
It is essentially illegal chemical warfare, since they die in agony, months later, from radiation poisoning.
However, I do have a degree in Physics, so you should take my word for it.
