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I mean, there are cultural aspects of this that I have to really immerse myself in because I’m not Japanese. It feels almost a little invasive to be telling the story from their perspective, but what the hell? Somebody’s got to tell the story, and I’m not going to tell it from a jingoistic, nationalistic American perspective, because I don’t want to deal with all the sociopolitical aspects of, should it have been dropped, all that stuff. I don’t want to deal with that.

I’ve got to be very careful about it not being an indictment of the people who dropped the bomb. I think the message needs to be, this thing happened. It happened to real people. Let’s not go into why it happened and who was to blame and all that sort of thing. But let’s just take that as a moment in history frozen in amber that we need to learn from. We need to cherish that memory, because that memory might just keep us alive.

How can you learn from something without understanding why it happened?

The next level of shoot and cry is shoot and I wasn't even there. I was sleeping

I guess Hiroshima just did that what-the-hell

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

Empathy is our superpower... the lessons of America’s use of the atomic bomb in World War II

Hmm... In a single bombing raid over Tokyo - ~100,000 Japanese people were killed and a million left homeless due to a horrific slaughter due to firebombing. Not only did it feature conventional weapons - it was worse than the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

I think there's a bigger lesson here and by-and-large Americans are totally unaware of the event.

Bombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945)

On the night of 9/10 March 1945, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) conducted a devastating firebombing raid on Tokyo, the Japanese capital city. This attack was code-named Operation Meetinghouse by the USAAF and is known as the Tokyo Great Air Raid (東京大空襲, Tōkyō dai-kūshū) in Japan. Bombs, dropped from 279 Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers, burned out much of eastern Tokyo.

More than 90,000 and possibly over 100,000 Japanese people were killed, mostly civilians, and one million were left homeless, making it probably the most destructive single air attack in human history, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese air and civil defenses proved largely inadequate; 14 American aircraft and 96 airmen were lost.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 2 points 19 hours ago

It was all wooden housing :(

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

Pretending that it was out of the goodness of their heart and not MAD that they dont use it more i-cant

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