The Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: War Crime or Necessary Evil?
Simon Whistler · May 25, 2023 · 14 min video · China & Indo-Pacific
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In the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, three days later Nagasaki was hit with the second one. These actions, at the very end of the Second World War, are to this day often condemned for the horrific civilian casualties they caused, and for the fact that they were the only wartime uses of such a weapon in history.
However, at the same time, many points of the fact that they swiftly brought an end to the brutal Pacific theatre against an empire that was prepared to fight until the very last man.
But today, we're going to take an objective look at both sides of this heated debate, and figure out if the world's only atomic attacks were necessary in the long run, and perhaps justified, or simply, just the first case, of the United States flexing its nuclear muscles.
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