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herzundseele:

In the first 2-4 months, between 90,000 and 166,000 people died in Hiroshima from the effects of the bomb.  Half of those deaths occured on the first day.  Flash or flame burns, falling debris, radiation sickness and other compounding illnesses were the most common causes of death.  

I am anti-nuclear-weapons.  Why? Chemical warfare at this scale is inexcusable and unjustifiable even from an ideological standpoint.  And on top of that, it’s just plain immoral.  The killing of civilians in an industrial area is not merely strategic, but it’s evil.  A nation being at war does not justify the murder of its civilians.  The fact that it was necessary to racialize and demonize the Japanese before dropping the bombs attests to the fact that the use of these weapons is morally inconscionable.  Fear clouds morality and justice. 

The government knew the scale of the damage that the atomic bomb.  They had conducted tests in the Pacific on islands like Bikini Island.  The destruction was intentional.  The aim was not merely to “end the war,” but to assert the dominance of the United States on the world stage.  By November 1946, the Cold war had already begun.  Tensions between USSR and USA were rising and the atomic bomb was an expedient means of displaying the might of the USA arsenals.

So, no, by no means are atomic bombs or nuclear weaponry ethical.  It only takes one to kill millions, so why does the US maintain an arsenal of over 5000 nuclear weapons?

Think about that.  

see: Nuclear Weapons & the United States

archivedigger:

demons:

Hiroshima, November 1946