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| The Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima. |
I defend dropping at least the first atomic bomb in Losing. (Noting, among other things, that the two nuclear bombings were less deadly and destructive than when the US firebombed Tokyo: "The Operation Meetinghouse firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9 March 1945 was the single deadliest air raid of World War II,[22] greater than Dresden,[23] Hamburg, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki as single events." More.)
Here is a longer discussion of the atomic bombs' use from The New Republic in 1981.
Sometimes the least bad option is fucking horrific. Kinda the definition of war.
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