Mostly Japanese. Some from Korea, others from other countries. Many civilians. Many POWs and trafficked "comfort women". People who just wanted to go home. They were known as hibakusha, "ones who saw the flash": the ones lived through the atomic bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
The 164,621 people are not those who were killed in the bombings, that number is far greater. These are the people who, as of March this year, lived through them and are still alive. Both bombs were dropped this week, seventy-two years ago. Imagine having lived through the most terrifying human-made destruction, and on its anniversary seventy-two years later, having to feel that fear again.
It's tearing me up right now.
I don't want any talks of "yes well it ended the war". I'm not talking about the bomb. I'm talking about the people."
If you had paid your denbts you would know that hibakusha means "explosion-affected people".
Samuel Martin
I think you meant to post on reddit
Ethan Gonzalez
Ummm, the Japanese deserved it sweetie. Xenophobic as fuck desu
Caleb King
>I don't want to talk about why the bombs were dropped, I want to virtue signal I wonder why your friend doesn't shed tears over the fire bombing victims. Probably "bigger boom" = "bigger feels" or some childish shit
Christopher Ross
No problem in murdering thousands at all, the problem is that using nukes is a dishonourable way of winning wars.
If they had sent a land invasion, the glory would be far greater than whatever the cowards got by using a nuke
Aiden Miller
Jap here
It was unnecessary but just an exaggerated part of war like the holohoax
Explosions kills thousands more japanese oh no!
It was WW2. Explosions were killing people all over the world.
Get over it and make the future better.
Alexander Sullivan
>sweetie Why do so many US people insist on writing and talking like an obsese middle aged black mammy?
Jace Price
To accurately represent our politically vocal demographics
Henry Foster
>The 164,621 people are not those who were killed in the bombings, that number is far greater. >that number is far greater.
>The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people
Tell your friend he's a dumbass. >en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall >A study done for Secretary of War Henry Stimson's staff by William Shockley estimated that conquering Japan would cost 1.7–4 million American casualties, including 400,000–800,000 fatalities, and five to ten million Japanese fatalities. The key assumption was large-scale participation by civilians in the defense of Japan.[15]
Not to mention the devastating effect an invasion would have on Japanese industry. America rebuilt Japan's economy into one of the world's strongest after the war, currently the third largest GDP behind the USA and China. Anyone who opposes nuclear weapons needs to open up a history textbook and try to justify the facts that. >Past nuclear bombings have saved millions of lives. >MAD prevented a conventionally fought WW3 which would have killed millions more. >Nukes have deescalated countless smaller conflicts because of the threat of total destruction.
Daniel Williams
There was no need to invade or nuke
Just seige and allow surrender just like the emperor wants
Ethan Lee
>Jap Japanese don't use the word
Cooper Hill
The alternative would have been a full scale land invasion which would account for millions dead.
David Harris
Fine with the continued fire bombing campaigns and starvation of the country via blockade. Two big bombs and a quicker end is just like so inhumane man.
Aiden Foster
japs were acting cra cra!! Fuckin actin like slant eyed nazis........ but oooo poor poor japs
always with the poor japs that got nuked.......
Easton Allen
Considering Greece's last great invention was the homo, I'm not surprised by this thread at all.
Jose Gray
I don't hear him crying about the 20M Chinese the Japanese killed.
Or the horrific human experiments the Japanese committed.
Or the fact the Battle of Okinawa had more casualties than both bombs combined.
But, the bombs somehow transcend all of this... ?
Jonathan Morales
If you honestly think that the Japanese would have surrendered without threat of complete destruction then you are completely delusional.
This guy refused to surrender for almost 20 years after the war ended. He refused to believe Japan could have surrendered so quickly BECAUSE HE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THE ATOM BOMB and assumed the calls from the Allied forces to leave the forest was a trap.
Oliver Davis
Surrender like Okinawa aka mass suicide, just on a country wide scale? I thought we're talking about what would harm Jap citizens less?
Brody Nguyen
You are a simple minded fool. Individual outliers do not decide for collective groups.
The Japanese would only fight to the death if they were denied their surrender conditions. They simply were granted their surrender conditions after the nukes were dropped rather than before.
I wonder (((why)))
Jaxson Mitchell
Was the intent to conquer and enslave the Japanese people or overthrow their ruler?
Then they would all fight to the death.
Was the intent merely to end the war and then allow Japan to continue as a disarmed militarily crippled world power?
Ok then Japanese will surrender to enough explosions
Jordan Wilson
Everyone forgets Tokyo was firebombed for months
Angel Myers
I see what you did there. The mods apparently woke up and started removing all your low effort threads. Here is a tip for you:
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Connor Gonzalez
Japs only surrendered due to russians. Nukes show just how bat shit the Japs were and how it was the only option without russians.
Jonathan Barnes
Does someone know how many US-prisoner were in Nagasaki and Hiroshima when the atombomb was dropped?
Justin Hill
>Highest christian populations in Japan >Literally had the pentagram as their city symbol
Hunter Cruz
Japs only surrender if you let their emperor live
Nukes were irrelevant along with invasion once defeat was guaranteed. All that mattered was wether or not surrender was going to be nice or not.
US couldve made it nice by ending the Cold War but US was just a puppet of the Cold War
Jace Fisher
Fuck them, a horrible fate awaited the loser no matter who it was or how many innocents got caught in the crossfire
Brayden Robinson
How is this related to my question? Maybe they were intending a circle.
