‘US government documents admit that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nuclear attack was the first strike in Washington’s Cold War on the Soviet Union. Ben Norton reviews the historical record.’
My favorite contradiction about this is how westerners engage in the most ridiculous purity politics about violence but when it comes to dropping bombs that can literally end humanity and destroy the planet on hundreds of thousands of civilians, apparently that is justifiable.