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meembo · 08-07-2005, 04:05 PM

I also wanted to add that I see Oppenheimer's conscience as a most appropriate brake to any impulse to see the bomb as anything but a last resort. His part was primarily to invent the machine, not to determine how it was used. I can't imagine the burden he carried from seeing the bomb killing hundreds of thousands of people.

I object to Pacifier's portrayal of the situation as ..."They died for the stupidity of their own nation and the desire of the USA to show the world and Russia in particular what new toy they have." The bombs ended a bloody war. The Japanese were fighting for what they assumed to be their very existence. The defense of their country and empire was fanatical. In this discussion as a German, Pacifier has a unique responsibility for at least disclaiming what the belligerent government of his forefathers did to emboil the world (and a very isolationist USA) in a second world war. I defend my country as a liberator and a peacemaker in World War II. I have plenty of criticism of my country in the present tense, but IMHO Germans and Japanese historians cannot take enough blame for what happened to their countries in the 1940s.

08-07-2005, 04:05 PM	#23 (permalink)
meembo Junkie Location: Connecticut	I also wanted to add that I see Oppenheimer's conscience as a most appropriate brake to any impulse to see the bomb as anything but a last resort. His part was primarily to invent the machine, not to determine how it was used. I can't imagine the burden he carried from seeing the bomb killing hundreds of thousands of people. I object to Pacifier's portrayal of the situation as ..."They died for the stupidity of their own nation and the desire of the USA to show the world and Russia in particular what new toy they have." The bombs ended a bloody war. The Japanese were fighting for what they assumed to be their very existence. The defense of their country and empire was fanatical. In this discussion as a German, Pacifier has a unique responsibility for at least disclaiming what the belligerent government of his forefathers did to emboil the world (and a very isolationist USA) in a second world war. I defend my country as a liberator and a peacemaker in World War II. I have plenty of criticism of my country in the present tense, but IMHO Germans and Japanese historians cannot take enough blame for what happened to their countries in the 1940s. __________________ less I say, smarter I am Last edited by meembo; 08-07-2005 at 04:07 PM..