Long-term health effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs not as dire as perceived
The detonation of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in horrific casualties. The long-term effects of radiation exposure also increased cancer rates in the survivors. But public perception of the rates of cancer and birth defects among survivors and their children is greatly exaggerated when compared to the reality revealed by comprehensive follow-up studies. Ref. Source 2y.
Seventy years ago we were locked in a war with a country that didn't know how to give up. This war cost the lives of millions upon millions of people. Ask the Chinese if they thought it was bad that we dropped the bombs and stopped the aggression the Japanese were perpetrating in China. [By The Way], our plan was to invade Japan. They knew exactly where we were goin to invade because there are so few areas for an invasion. They gave the civilians there sharpened bamboo poles as makeshift spears with orders to rush the invaders if and when they came. We would have killed millions of Japanese when they did this and they'd have thousands of our troops. So, whoever this Christian Appy is, he should get his facts just a little straighter and maybe tell the whole story. Oh, and President Truman did use the bomb with an eye towards the USSR as well, but that was not the primary reason.
I agree with Abnninja the japanese won't give up and they will try to make lots of damage before succumbing, just like what happen in philippine, they massacre the people before the america take over, the japanese at that time do a lot atrocities to the civilian including their own people, I watch one of the survival victim who reveal how the soldier decide to massacre their own civilian in order to blame it to america so they can demand reparation from america knowing their inevitable doom.
That bomb in away liberate many country under the japanese regime including my country, in less blood and casualty than if done in conventional way, even my grandmother tell me how they like to beheading civilian and raping the woman to the point my grandma need to hide and live in seclusion under the house while her family need to act like they don't have female in their house.
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