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12/4/2017 4:59:39 AM
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In the process, it also ensured that millions of Japanese citizens exposed to the radiation would now have to deal with problems of cancer due to radiation, radiation sickness, and other diseases related to high radiation exposure.
It also set off the steps of the beginning of the Cold War, which almost became a nuclear war a few times.
Did it save countless lives? Well, the Japanese general population was already on the verge of surrendering, with the Japanese army being the only ones able to fight back, and since they were cornered on the island with no way to get out due to American occupation of the seas and oceans surrounding Japan, yeah, sure. Whatever. It "saved" lives, I guess.
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To be honest, it was very good for the Japanese people as a whole. I believe that without America's decisive victory and occupation of Japan, the country would not have had the drive and conviction to become a world leader in technological innovation, and they would not have seen the exponential economic growth that they did after they lost the war.
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I mean, sure, it's also a good thing because now the US and Japan are allies as well, and it did provide some research subjects to study the effects of exposure to high amounts of radioactive materials. I wouldn't have dropped it on civilian cities though, and I would have dropped it on big military sites where it would be more effective, that way it would have broken the morale of the Japanese army without harming civilians. One other issue I can see with it is with the decline in Japanese birth rates (though, this is a combination of multiple factors) and possible inheritance of destroyed genes from descendants of survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Edited by DeChief: 12/4/2017 7:22:52 AMThe original plan wasn't to drop them on civilian cities. IIRC they had to switch targets because of the weather, or something ridiculous like that. Lower birthrates are due to Japanese men being extremely beta. It makes Japanese women want foreigners, so they move away to a western country at a young age, marry a foreigner, have kids, and end up coming back to Japan to put their kids through an international school.
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That's... just a really bad excuse for us to switch targets, imo. Still, what's done is done, and I'm glad that for the most part, the Japanese have rebounded from the war and are now established in the world as a technological and scientific influence in the world.
