Operation Downfall would have been worse. And imagine if the US had the technical knowledge to use the bomb and chose not to do so. How would the widows of the hundreds of thousands of US soldiers who died in the Japanese invasion felt?
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The Japenese Military committed horrible atrocities on our servicemen during that war. Not to be overlooked
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Thank you both for adding in the reality of the situation. Historical perspective matters.
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It's incomprehensible to accept or understand that the atrocities and wrongdoings from our past have not taught mankind to show humanity. A lesson not learned.
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Or really, many lessons not learned.
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The most humanitarian acts of the 20th Century. Saving millions of lives fighting those 1945 Japs who were 100x more atrocious than ISIS or Al Qaeda, was this fact: Without the devastating impact of those two TINY atomic bombs, the world would have used 100x worse. Not knowing.
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There should be an "acknowledge" icon. There are some things it isn't proper to "like". Sad day indeed.
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dig you and your photos. question: what is
#NARA? -
National Archives and Records Administration
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Hard to like that tweet.
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Sad day...
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Thank you for remembering the blackest blot on American military history.

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My dad was in Okinawa. He came home because those two nuclear bombs ended WWII. The killings stop only because of those two bombs. I am grateful that Dad came home, got married, and had a family.
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One of our
@NYUTischSchool students Dan Blank made an animated film about the shadows left after the devastating bombing - here it is https://vimeo.com/5787858@DanRatherThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” ― J. Robert Oppenheimerhttps://www.wired.co.uk/article/manhattan-project-robert-oppenheimer …
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Here is a ground photo of that same event, it has been colorizedpic.twitter.com/6GoWRIgeFq
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