One Big Rock is Coming ............

[Givechance]

You just watch ah boys to men?

 

Yes...indeed...watch it last night after climbing Bukit Timah Hill.

 

[Felipe]

In war, who starts first, be prepared to face the consequences.

[Mllcg]

dont forget.. usa did not use only atomic bombs..

 

they use napalm in vietnam too

[Tigershark1976]

I won't call dropping 2 atomic bombs on residential population heroic..

 

 

Yup, confirm not hero.... but life saver for many others, such as urs grandparents....

[Tigershark1976]

agree.. so why drop the bomb on innocent civilians? :angry:

 

 

those soldier were civilian back in their country, and those civilians were the 1 that provide the necessary support and rations to those evils. Without money, food and weapon supply, the evil were just toothless tiger...

 

btw, are u Japanese? I would suggest u not to trust the history book from your own country.... its noncense!

 

and btw, if our grandparents is the 1 making the decicion to drop the bomb, I believe they will drop all the bombs they owned at that moment, wipe out all Japs at 1 go.

Edited February 6, 2013 by Tigershark1976

[Maxus-MIFA9]

hmmmmm.......... Big rock falling on 15/02/13 and our protest is on 16/02/13.....

 

will we be wiped out even before the protest and back to population zero ....

[Baphomet]

those soldier were civilian back in their country, and those civilians were the 1 that provide the necessary support and rations to those evils. Without money, food and weapon supply, the evil were just toothless tiger...

 

btw, are u Japanese? I would suggest u not to trust the history book from your own country.... its noncense!

 

and btw, if our grandparents is the 1 making the decicion to drop the bomb, I believe they will drop all the bombs they owned at that moment, wipe out all Japs at 1 go.

 

Im not japanese. Im Singaporean. the history textbooks i studied all labelled USA as "savior". History of war are always written by the victors.

 

of course when given the choice, people who suffered during the war will want to kill all Japanese. their hatred for the Japs is understandable. I'm not defending the Japs for their deeds..

 

But then do the common Japanese have any say over the war? we cannot be blinded by hatred and say that ALL japs deserve to suffer.. thus lets bomb them all!

 

I understand the war tactic of crippling the country by bombing their infrastructures.. but atomic bombs? by using them.. means their aim is more on inflicting maximum casualties on the civilian populations.

 

2 sides of a coin.. depends on which side u look at it.

 

Majority of us accepted the bombing of civilians as an act of justifiable revenge or regrettable necessity, and bombing Japan's cities did hasten its surrender, by how much though.. please note that at that point, Japan is the only axis power remaining and are fighting a losing war.... they significantly weaker then when they are at their prime.. in fact they are already on the verge of losing... is it justifiable to use such great violence at that point of time?

 

2 sides of a coin.

Edited February 7, 2013 by Baphomet

[1fast1]

What i think the USA could have done was to demonstrate the power of the weapon on an island just off japan mainland (like a unpopulated sentosa).

 

Nowhere near the same psychological impact. And that's critical when you're talking about WMDs (the term hadn't even been coined then, of course).

 

Plus they couldn't take the chance that Japan would just shrug off the demo and tough it out. The US would just look foolish and would've depleted its very limited prototype nuke arsenal for nothing. If Jap intel had been accurate about how many bombs the US had to start out with, they might well have brazened it out. At least, by nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Jap war machine was compromised and their infrastructure decimated. Along with the sheer horror of the event (the psychological impact), which really cannot be underestimated.

 

It's almost impossible to predict "what if...?"s when it comes to the course of human history. True, the A-bombs killed a lot of people. True, there are indications that it might not have been a strict military necessity to defeat Japan. One thing is almost for certain - Japan prior to, and during WW2 had a very aggressive streak of militaristic nationalism running through it. The utter devastation (and attendant humiliation) caused by the detonation of the nuclear bombs was likely to have had a shattering effect on the National psyche. It is fairly likely that this very psychological "gelding" was what led to the demilitarisation of the country and the start of real progress, with the economic and technological boom that followed in the ensuing decades.

 

Can anyone say with certainty that if Japan had NOT been beaten into submission by the power of those horrific weapons, they would not have continued their imperialistic ways, at least in the immediate region? Look at the way they treated civilians of their occupied territories, including those in my own country (Singapore). I wouldn't want to be living under the shadow of a Japanese military flag today.

 

It's very easy to pontificate with the benefit of hindsight. But the ramifications of a big change to history are very difficult to predict. I can't honestly say that things would've turned out better for many innocent people in the world (and that includes the Japanese) without the use of the A-bombs.

[Chrispie]

it would be a lot more spectacular if that object hit the moon.

[SingaporeanLifeStyle]

Don't worry, rock or alien whatever always end up in America.

 

Hopefully it doesn't hit anything else in space and divert its course.

 

Hmm, New York City seems to be a popular place with them Aliens too

[Roh96]

hmmmmm.......... Big rock falling on 15/02/13 and our protest is on 16/02/13.....

 

will we be wiped out even before the protest and back to population zero ....

 

16/2 is a contingency plan incase the big rock didn't arrive.