After the Bomb
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#2>American B-29 bombers dropped leaflets all over the city, warning us that Nagasaki would ‘fall to ashes’ on August 8. The leaflets were confiscated immediately by the kenpei (Imperial Japanese Army)
Yikes. Imagine living in a situation where the government of your own country has as much care for your life as the enemy.
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#3>American B-29 bombers dropped leaflets all over the city, warning us that Nagasaki would ‘fall to ashes’ on August 8. The leaflets were confiscated immediately by the kenpei (Imperial Japanese Army) Yikes. Imagine living in a situation where the government of your own country has as much care for your life as the enemy.
Wasn't Nagasaki a secondary target, chosen because the first was clouded over?
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#4>American B-29 bombers dropped leaflets all over the city, warning us that Nagasaki would ‘fall to ashes’ on August 8. The leaflets were confiscated immediately by the kenpei (Imperial Japanese Army) Yikes. Imagine living in a situation where the government of your own country has as much care for your life as the enemy.
What else did you expect? It was wartime.
Controlling the propaganda and information and not letting the enemy direct their narrative was something each government wanted to fully own regardless of the outcome to civilians, even the allies:
The Londoners were told that the V2 rockets landing on their heads were "gas explosions" because it was better for population morale them not know the enemy has such advanced long range strike capabilities as that would increase fear and lower morale and we're less likely to support long time war attrition with this knowledge.
Same with the Japanese, why would they parrot the enemy narrative to the population, especially that until after the bomb blast was examined, Japan didn't believe that the US already had a nuclear weapon so soon.
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#5>American B-29 bombers dropped leaflets all over the city, warning us that Nagasaki would ‘fall to ashes’ on August 8. The leaflets were confiscated immediately by the kenpei (Imperial Japanese Army) Yikes. Imagine living in a situation where the government of your own country has as much care for your life as the enemy.
Wasn't Nagasaki a secondary target, chosen because the first was clouded over?
They dropped leaflets stating "some or all of the cities named" would be destroyed in the coming days.
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#6It's crazy to think people actually lived through this.
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#7>American B-29 bombers dropped leaflets all over the city, warning us that Nagasaki would ‘fall to ashes’ on August 8. The leaflets were confiscated immediately by the kenpei (Imperial Japanese Army) Yikes. Imagine living in a situation where the government of your own country has as much care for your life as the enemy.
Also, that was the second bomb, so it was a very credible threat.
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#8>American B-29 bombers dropped leaflets all over the city, warning us that Nagasaki would ‘fall to ashes’ on August 8. The leaflets were confiscated immediately by the kenpei (Imperial Japanese Army) Yikes. Imagine living in a situation where the government of your own country has as much care for your life as the enemy.
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#9>American B-29 bombers dropped leaflets all over the city, warning us that Nagasaki would ‘fall to ashes’ on August 8. The leaflets were confiscated immediately by the kenpei (Imperial Japanese Army) Yikes. Imagine living in a situation where the government of your own country has as much care for your life as the enemy.
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What is nationalist about this comment?
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#10>American B-29 bombers dropped leaflets all over the city, warning us that Nagasaki would ‘fall to ashes’ on August 8. The leaflets were confiscated immediately by the kenpei (Imperial Japanese Army) Yikes. Imagine living in a situation where the government of your own country has as much care for your life as the enemy.
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No, no I do not. Not everybody on the internet is from the US you know.