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[230] [231] He also stated that neither the bombing of Germany nor the atomic bombing of Japan was militarily necessary; the purpose was to intimidate our country and the world. [ 232 ] [ 233 ] He wanted to use the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as justification for the possible use of Russian nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine.
According to supporters, the atomic bombings were necessary to bring an end to the war with minimal casualties and ultimately prevented a greater loss of life on both sides; according to critics, the bombings were unnecessary for the war's end and were a war crime, raising moral and ethical implications.
Mar. 16—The Manhattan Project in New Mexico was front and center in 1945. In nanoseconds, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of World War II changed the nature of warfare ...
Chris Jochnick and Roger Normand in their article The Legitimation of Violence 1: A Critical History of the Laws of War explain that: "By leaving out morale bombing and other attacks on civilians unchallenged, the Tribunal conferred legal legitimacy on such practices." [22] [23] Mushroom cloud from the atomic explosion over Nagasaki (9 August 1945)
A survivor of the atomic bomb attack on the Japanese city of Nagasaki during the Second World War has warned Vladimir Putin that he has no idea of the destruction and pain such weapons cause as ...
A survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki nuclear blast has accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of a group representing survivors of the US atomic bombings, and called for a world free from ...
The approach to Nagasaki twenty minutes later indicated that the heart of the city's downtown was also covered by dense cloud. Ashworth decided to bomb Nagasaki using radar, but, according to Bockscar's bombardier, Captain Kermit Beahan, a small opening in the clouds at the end of the three-minute bomb run permitted him to identify target features.
The U.S. bombings of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, and Hiroshima three days earlier, led to Japan’s unconditional surrender and the end of World War II. An estimated 210,000 people were vaporized ...