Were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings Justified
44 sec War & conflict
The, the actual use of nuclear weapons- No ... is that ever justified offensively?
I think it was justified in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, yes.
I think it was justified in bringing the Second World War to an end, yes, unquestionably.
Unquestionably justified. Unquestionably, yes. I thought the num- the, the, um, number of lives- So it's justified to kill people who did nothing wrong?
Well, we're not talking about people who did nothing wrong.
The, the Japanese were warned. Well, the populations of crowded cities are- We, we- ... not responsible for the war- We, we were in a- ... women and children getting incinerated ... we were, we were in a state of total war.
Okay. Well- I, I think- We were not in a state of total war, actually.
There were no Japanese troops on American soil.
We were not in a state of total war. Well, they, they'd attacked- That's not even close to a state of n- total war ... they had attacked, um, American soil, as you know.
Four years before- Yeah ... and then they were losing, but we were not in a state of total war
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