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it was, and still is, the most fucked up thing one nation has ever done to another. that Japan didn't even deserve it just makes it all the worse. truly despicable behavior by a country that supposedly has much "love for their fellow man". I will /always/ be ashamed of this.

@workingclasshistory I wonder if USA dropped the nuke somewhere less or not populated location as warning that next would be on the city, I wonder if it would have the same effect.

@workingclasshistory

It wasn't a belief that Japan would surrender. Russia had moved east and was beginning to invade the Japanese islands in an effort to end the war, and Japan was weakly staffed on that end of the nation. It was a choice of surrendering to either the US or the USSR. They chose the US b/c they believed we'd allow them to retain much of their gov't, which we did. (Incl war criminals).

We dropped those bombs to stop Russia.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/

@workingclasshistory Aqueles animais mataram milhares de civis só para testar seu brinquedinho.

@workingclasshistory Yes. It was purely for geopolitical reasons. For establishing a regime based on fear of nuclear attack.