Epimonandas wrote:
And North Korea's behavior is such a good way to prove Bush's statement wrong, right Jay?
Bec. When nukes were developed:
they did not know how powerful they were or about the radiation effects? and if there had not been those bombings there may have been a lot more later during the cold war like the missle crisis or the Berlin airlift.
Japan had 900,000 troops on Kyushu alone and 28,000,000 citizens whom the japanese expected to fight. The U.S. had reason to believe the japanese would fight to the last man after experinces at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. 29 million japanese and 7 million americans is alot smaller than the 150,000 or so that died in the bombings. More died when the allies bombed Dresden in Germany too, than in the nuke bombings.
There are already several nations that have nukes, and we have not had problems with them since they have stable non aggressive governments.
We have more nukes because we were racing with the Soviets during the cold war, the soviets had more missles and the U.S. had more warheads. around 30,000 at last count if I recall correctly. and maybe 22,000 for the soviets. Either way that is enough to wipe out the planet from either side several times over. Even China has about 300.
If Iraq had nukes, Israel would be gone and by them so would half of Iraq.
Fact is, the US invades countries it doesn't like that
don't have nukes, and it runs screaming from countries it doesn't like that
do have nukes - if I were a middle eastern nation who didn't want to brown-nose those warmongering dolts in Washington,
I'd be developing me some nuclear weapons, no 2 ways about it........ Perhaps if the US stopped acting like a megalomaniac school kid then these nations might feel secure enough not to go dragging us down the road of armageddon Bush is paving.....
And let's cure ourselves of this
ludicrous old falacy shall we? Nukes were used on Japan to frighten the Soviets and prevent WWIII -
not to end WWII...... Japan was already finished and looking for a way to end the war before the bombs were dropped - they changed
nothing in Japan's resolve.
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