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Originally Posted by Willravel
The United Soviet States of... oh snap.
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You mean the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? Or the Russian Federal Soviet Socialist Republic that was the Russian entity within the USSR?
oh snap
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RB, I can't make moral judgements about acts of war, especially a war that had been raging (with the current actors away) for 3 1/2 years. There was no definite suit for surrender following Hiroshima, so while Nagasaki may be an ugly episode, I see it as no more or less ugly than anything else that happened during wartime. Plan9 made a very good point with the "well, we've got it, might as well see if it works" argument. Since the Japanese didn't react quickly enough to the first one, putting Fat Boy on the plane was an easy decision. Honestly, I find it harder to find fault with the second bomb than the first.
Nuclear weapons get their special catagory for all the reasons you mentioned plus the fact that it takes a small number to do extensive damage. They didn't get their special status until there were enough of them to effectively cleanse the planet.