Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise - Vol. 1 Ch. 7 - Falling Sun

[MangaDex]

 

[ijatpunye]

War is scary

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

>watch out america
Hehe.

 

[Skepticium]

Basically if you have war industry like America you could do whatever you want

 

[074769]

Correct, when you write history you are always perceived as a liberator, just look at the case with 2 nukes, more horrifying than that stupid holocaust that they claim, yet no one is even talking about that. Who thought bombing civilians with radiation weapons was a great idea? Why wasn't he prosecuted for war crimes? There will come a time where America will pay for every wrong doing it did, and it won't be pretty, also will be a shame because the people who did that will no longer be alive, so other people will pay for their sins.

 

[Drifter]

@074769 If the US hadn't used nukes and resorted to a conventional invasion, it would have been much worse. I imagine it was also done to intimidate the soviets but it worked out better for Japan than the alternatives. Could you imagine if the USSR or China got involved? There might have been a north and south Japan.

I sympathize with the characters in this manga but I don't think of the US as a villain in this conflict.

 

[Harvester]

While it was recognized in 1927 that radiation causes genetic damage and increased incidence of other issues later on, there are fairly well regarded arguments that, terrible as it was, the 'shock and awe'-style strike is likely to have resulted in net fewer deaths than a conventional invasion. One response seen often is that the bombs could've been demonstrated on a nearby island, but, like contemporaries of the time, I'm personally of the mind that it wouldn't've been enough to halt hostilities. Conventional bombs wouldn't've been big enough either; the largest non-nuclear bomb used up to that point clocked in at ~6.5 tons; the two nukes weighed in at ~15 and ~20 kilotons (which is nothing compared to current ones-- the Tsar Bomba that Russia tested had a theoretical yield of ~100 megatons).

Still a nasty incident in human history, but it's just one of many in WWII... thankfully still remembered, at least. (731, anybody?)