Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it’s complicated.

  • kayjay
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    1311 months ago

    His reasoning was if the US didn’t make it, the Nazis would, and that would be even worse. He never wanted to make the bomb, it was just the lesser of two evils.

    • @RatherBeMTB
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      011 months ago

      Making the bomb was a good decision, dropping two over civilians after the war finished was genocide.

      • @TopRamenBinLaden
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        211 months ago

        The US was never trying to exterminate the Japanese race and culture, so no it wasn’t genocide. It was a fucked up act of war, maybe you could even call it an atrocity, but calling it a genocide is wrong by definition.