It's actually very easy to feel sorry for the innocent people that had to die in this bombing, Heroshima, and the Tokyo fire bombings.
Most shouldn't have to try.
Of course that doesnt detract from the genocides Japan committed in China.
However, what makes the Nuclear Bomb unique, is that for the first time we are capable of nearly instantaneously killing all of humanity, without much effort at all.
The book, The making of the nuclear bomb, talks of people walking in the streets with skin hanging from their face and arms. A gentleman holding his own eye. They talked of 100s of people running into the river due to severe burns only to die just moments later as they recovered from the shock.
People were permanently blinded, the hospital infrastructure was destroyed, so the many who were in severe pain could get no help. And of course there were the cases of accute radiation syndrome.
The Nuclear bomb is a terrible instrument of war. And of course, it's chief purpose is demoralizing the enemy, or to put it differently, killing civilians.
You nearly killed me with the Oppenheimer fanfic. I think I'll just keep on roughing it for a while. From the sounds of it, it will eventually pick up.
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Reply to comment by LDarrell in Nuclear shadow, Nagasaki by allez05
It's actually very easy to feel sorry for the innocent people that had to die in this bombing, Heroshima, and the Tokyo fire bombings.
Most shouldn't have to try.
Of course that doesnt detract from the genocides Japan committed in China.
However, what makes the Nuclear Bomb unique, is that for the first time we are capable of nearly instantaneously killing all of humanity, without much effort at all.