• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    We also nuked two cities, for reasons much less honorable or necessary than the one we are told.

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        1 year ago

        Any respected historian on the subject will tell you that it’s way more complicated and nuanced than your average social media user is aware of. If, like Truman, you honestly believed that using atomic bombs on Japan would ultimately result in less loss of life, on a purely mathematical basis it was the only moral decision.

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      You’d think one would have been enough