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[–] NewEnglandRedshirt@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Really, it was more of a "The Nazis are doing this. We need to get this done before the Nazis so we can prevent the Nazis using it because we will retaliate." The fact that the war in Europe was over before either side had actually finished the bomb made that part irrelevant.

Unfortunately for science, once discoveries are made and turned over to the military, scientsts' morality gets shoved into a corner.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's just the WW2 version of "You were so preoccupied on whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should"

Now there's lots of debate on if nukes resulted in the unsteady peace we benefit from today, but fact of the matter is two cities that existed, stopped, existing.

Edit: I'm being a bit hyperbolic but the point still stands.

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still around, man.

Edit: not trying to downplay the monstrosity of the A bomb, just pointing out that they're still big cities.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know but it's kinda the ship of theseus. It was rebuilt but for the time they got deleted.

[–] nodiet@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Deleted" is very much a euphemism for "everyone in them got either pulverised in an instant or died in agonising pain from radiation poisoning"

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah you lost your family in that house fire, but the house is build up again, stop crying

[–] HitoH@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my le bomb.... it le killed people?!

[–] Zink@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

Well, I wouldn't necessarily call them people...

[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They were supposed to be used on Nazis, not the Japanese. Thats the difference.

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago
[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What’s the difference?

[–] complacent_jerboa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No, they knew exactly what they were doing. There were interviews with them — they said so.

[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

“Get this crybaby outta here.”