ChuckRocksEh t1_j4i0xzf wrote on January 15, 2023 at 9:36 PM

Reply to comment by CupResponsible797 in Zero Days (2016) - Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target. [01:53:51] by Missing_Trillions

This guy paints a picture of the US dropping nukes as a bad thing. Numbers alone suggest that’s incorrect, 2 million Japanese died in WW2, the whole world lost 3% of people. Scores of people. If the US hadn’t dropped the bombs untold numbers of people would have died. The US didn’t roar into WW2 they were pulled in after trying to stay out. This guys a fuckin idiot.

CupResponsible797 t1_j4i2k55 wrote on January 15, 2023 at 9:46 PM

I don't think you're entirely wrong, but there exists a strong counterpoint to this.

Many argue that Japan did not capitulate because of the nukes, Japan capitulated because Soviet Union entered the war.

ChuckRocksEh t1_j4i45ie wrote on January 15, 2023 at 9:56 PM

Oh man, I agree a web diagram could go in a thousand directions but we only know what happened because of what happened.