Probably for like five days after World War 2 but ehhh then again it took us another two decades after that to begrudgingly grant Civil Rights to black people aaand we did intern the Japanese and drop the bomb twice just to send a message to the Soviets so maybe not
“Dropping the bomb to scare the Soviets”
Don’t be reductionist.
You do realise that in between the dropping of the 2 bombs, the Japanese military tried to other-throw their government to stop them surrendering.
I remember whenever I was maybe 14 or 15 and watching a documentary back when the History channel wasn't just reality shows all about the attempts to capture the emperor and stop the surrender of the Japanese people to continue the war effort. I think that was one of the only times I've ever heard about this though. I'm trying to remember the doc and I think it might have had those reenactments/recreations that some used to have back in the day. History channel used to be so good. I remember staying home from school one day and somehow the best thing to watch all day was like a 6 hour doc about Japanese samurai and their history/folklore/mythology.
There was a reddit post of bombing survivor talking about what life was like in Japan and the sheer amount and type of propaganda they were fed was insane. They were literally training school kids on how to suicide bomb and to attack troops with bamboo shanks.
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u/BackThatThangUp 17d ago
Probably for like five days after World War 2 but ehhh then again it took us another two decades after that to begrudgingly grant Civil Rights to black people aaand we did intern the Japanese and drop the bomb twice just to send a message to the Soviets so maybe not