"‘What did I do to the Americans?’ she would often say, ‘Why did they do this to me?’"
I could imagine a German thinking the same thing during conventional bombings.
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#12>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…
"especially that until after the bomb blast was examined"
The first bomb had already been detonated in Hiroshima a few days prior. They had radio. Are you saying they still felt the threat was not credible?
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
"especially that until after the bomb blast was examined" The first bomb had already been detonated in Hiroshima a few days prior. They had radio. Are you saying they still felt the threat was not credible?
I was talking about the first bomb.
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#14"Later, we discovered that the bomb was dropped a few meters away from my sister’s school."
I suppose modern precision-guided bombs are an improvement for humanity. Wars are mostly between military targets these days.
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#15"Later, we discovered that the bomb was dropped a few meters away from my sister’s school." I suppose modern precision-guided bombs are an improvement for humanity. Wars are mostly between military targets these days.
> I suppose modern precision-guided bombs are an improvement for humanity. Wars are mostly between military targets these days.
Unfortunately this is not always the case - I am not sure if this is an issue with the ability of precision-guided bombs to hit a target reliably or the assumed lack of concern for the non-military victims that the bombs will impact.
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#16What is the date of this Time posting?
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#17What is the date of this Time posting?
Good question, and something I was wondering as well. Wayback machine says it was first indexed in 2017, so I'd go with that.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
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What is nationalist about this comment?
The inability of the poster to imagine their own country doing something similar.
If you don't like my current-day example, perhaps you'll like this more relevant-to-the post example: https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/15fka53...
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, no I do not. Not everybody on the internet is from the US you know.
Fair enough. Given the US-centric nature of HN it was an educated guess, but I was wrong. So which perfect country do you live in?
Oh just give it up already. No country is perfect, got it. There are shades of morality. Got it. Prejudice exists. Got it. Welcome to the realizations most of us attain in our teens.
The sanctimonious, smug, self-righteous tone you adopt is so tiresome and you're not revealing anything anyone here isn't already aware of.