this is the kind of nuclear missiles you had in the 50's

We shouldn't have dropped nukes on Japan as a threat to the USSR during WWII. We should have maintained our alliance with the USSR and the world would be so much more secure and prosperous today. No cold war. No containment. The vast majority of dictatorships we've installed and civil wars we've caused were Cold War containment policies. The United States is the true Evil Empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe

Come again?

That's an interesting take on history. Although i'm all for US and Russia being friends i'm pretty sure we dropped the nukes because to comb thru Japan with ground forces would of resulted in an exponential number of casualties considering even the civilians would of fought us with their bushido mindset.

If we didn't get a foothold in western Europe halting the spread of Communism i suspect much of western Europe would of been Red. I mean look at east Germany and how long it took them to come around, can you imagine if the rest of Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy were also red?

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Mar 15 2017 01:05pm

Dont worry in few time everybody will have the fire power of destroying everybody...
And about Russia "wa rmongering" the OP should proceed a search on the "russian explicit expansion campaigns during last centuries"...

This ignores the reality the main thing that kept Japan from surrendering was the fact the Soviet Union had not begun an invasion into Japan and the US demanding unconditional surrender.

Japan was more fearful of Soviet invasion more than anything else. Also many top military officials of the time were against it.

Also Japan was hesitant to surrender because of the fact they feared the Emperor would not be allowed to remain. The US wanted unconditional surrender, if they had just promised the Emperor would be allowed to remain, forcing Japan to surrender would have been much easier rather than relying on Nukes or the threat of Soviet invasion.

Eisenhower/MacArthur were both against the bomb and many other people involved in leadership in the Navy/Air Force and military.

This post was edited by sir_lance_bb on Mar 15 2017 03:07pm

Old Ike probably would have a thing or two to say about that.

This coming from the same retard who thought the Iraqis could demolish the US Army.

watch the sputnik moment, he got cornered into signing some educational reformation or some bullshit cuz the idiots were demanding it cuz they were scared of the sputnik.

Well like every where else in WW2, the Red Army just wouldn't have left and we would have had a Berlin Airlift scenario in Tokyo probably.

I think we nuked so that we could finish the war without having Russian boots on the ground in Japan.

After the island hopping campaign, the bloodiest fighting in any US war, it would have been crazy not to use the bomb.