"NUKES? WHY CAN'T WE USE THEM? WHATS THE POINT OF HAVING THEM???"

[yuiyoshida]

Hiroshima 90,000–146,000 people dead in Hiroshima


Nagasaki 39,000–80,000 dead in Nagasaki



Yes, they are there for assholes to use... I suppose.

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	Its just a matter of time before he decides its time to use them again
	9 (69%)
	The Republicans live on death and carnage, to gain their goals expect it.
	0 (0%)
	I don't think He would be that stupid to use a Nuke.
	0 (0%)
	North Korea is daring him to go ahead, and make their day....
	1 (8%)
	Some place in the Middle east is a place that will turn the desert into sharp glass.
	0 (0%)
	That OIL that's under their country, is OURS FOR The Taking , Mr. President, Nuke em!
	0 (0%)
	No one can really know the horror of Nuclear weapons especially if someone retaliated.
	2 (15%)
	Stupid Americans would cheer on the use of a Nuclear weapon, Fox news having an sexual orgasm
	1 (8%)
	But this will signal Jesus to come back!!! Thank God we will be all saved!!! He will see the mushroom clouds from Heaven!
	0 (0%)
	What Nuclear winter? We have global warming right???
	0 (0%)
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[Angry Dragon]

1. look at all the new places for Trump Towers

[yuiyoshida]

2. Well first they will have to clean up all that broken glass

in the desert...

[Angry Dragon]

3. it would be a tourist attraction

[yuiyoshida]

5. I am sure someone could make money on that...

HURRY HURRY HURRY!! COME SEE THE LARGEST GLASS PIT IN THE WORLD! ITS THE 10TH WONDER OF THE WORLD!! RADIO ACTIVE GLASS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!! YOU GOTTA COME SEE IT AT 25 DOLLARS A TOUR!!!

[Angry Dragon]

6. ..............

[yuiyoshida]

8. IkR?

Republican deplorables...would just love that.

[guillaumeb]

4. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were sacrificed to prove that the weapons really worked.

Recommended.

[yuiyoshida]

7. That's only..what?

270,000 people?

[Calculating]

9. Read up on unit 731/rape on nanking/etc

If ANYBODY deserved to get nuked it was imperial Japan.

[yuiyoshida]

11. AH...A HATER, THANKS, i WILL JUST REPORT YOU

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Yeah all Japanese should suffer for what a few people did. Maybe we should have nuke the entire island till no one was left, ...OOPS! forgot my family in Hawaii...well you could always just take all the Japanese Americans and hang the rest, right?

Take me, I will go first.

[Alea]

14. Why is he a hater?

Japan is a great country post WW2. During WW2 not so much, many atrocities and no denying it. Really shouldn't go down that road.

[Aristus]

15. The Rape of Nanking warranted war crimes trials. Not nuclear holocaust.

Every member of the above-average half of America knows that.

[yuiyoshida]

16. No really

He thinks all Japan should have been exterminated, than maybe round up those in the internment camps and hang them and all those in Hawaii!!


HEY I will go first!! Take me! I was born in 1987 but if you think all the generations after World War II even if they were born later, should be exterminated, ...

Pick me! I will go first!!!

[Aristus]

19. Slow down, slow down.

He's still probably counting the syllables in 'exterminated' on his fingers...

[yuiyoshida]

20. Lol...you just made me laugh

[Aristus]

21. ...

[yuiyoshida]

23. funny

[Aristus]

27. See below.

Still trying to rationalize...

[Alea]

26. Nanking was a small part of the totality

We were in a brutal war that we didn't start, and every right to finish it in the most expeditious way possible. Japan wasn't going to give up until there was no one left to fight. The two bombs put an end to it.

It should also be looked at through the eyes of the average American in 1945. They were the ones fighting and dying. We just monday morning quarterback it.

[yuiyoshida]

30. My Chinese girl's friends response...

[Alea]

35. No one here has blamed you

No one here hates you and no one here has said you should be exterminated. You've got some serious projection going on.

I don't deny my country's history and you shouldn't either. If you don't know your country's history then you should learn it. It was a crappy time for everyone. Since the end of WW2 our two nations have become great friends and allies.

[Coventina]

37. You are relatively new to DU, but the OP has legitimate reasons to be sensitive.

DU routinely gets really ugly about Japan, especially around the anniversaries of the bombings each year.

There is real history on this issue at this site.

[Alea]

38. I agree

I said in my first reply it was a road we probably shouldn't go down. I'll leave it at that.

[yuiyoshida]

39. First of all I am Japanese American, secondly

There are some people who really do believe Japan should have been reduced to a burned out cinder.

On the day of the great Japanese Earthquake there were people on the Internet screaming " Pearl Harbor!! THIS IS FOR PEARL harbor"

When I am told to go back to China, I feel the hatred. People don't think that Asians get harassed in this country. We do. We are NOT WHITE. I have been called:

Jap
Nip
Gook
Chink
Slant
etc...
nearly every name in the book, (Not on this website) by people on line. So yeah, we get it. There are people who blame us for all kinds of crap, from taking jobs away from White Americans to slaughtering other cultures, even though that is history now.

We may never hear the end of it. China every year asks Japan to APOLOGIZE for the atrocities done since World War II. Fine, they are cool with that, and they should, but still in this country and others (Australia, New Zealand) were still shit to people.

We are the SLANT eye Demons from hell... so no I don't deny History. Many of my people were locked up in the Interment camps, including George Takei , during that time period but that's not enough for some people. For some people, extermination was the only answer. I kinda take offense with that, if you know what I mean.

[yuiyoshida]

42. Hey I have been called a whale Hater on this website

Granted it was a long time ago, and I posted that I thought Japan should stop hunting whales while someone called me a liar and an Whale "eater" I guess what they said. I never have eaten whale in my life and not about to start.

[Coventina]

45. This site can be so hateful sometimes. Nevermind that you are a Japanese-American, but not even the

Japanese eat whale meat either!

(I mean, a very tiny minority do, but not nearly enough to accuse even the Japanese as "whale haters.&quot

You'll also notice that WHITE whaling nations: I'm looking at YOU Iceland and Norway! Never get that kind of bigotry directed at them.

And do Norse-Americans get called "whale haters?".......

[yuiyoshida]

48. It was at one time in the 1940s and 1950s children in

Japan were served Whale meat as part of their school lunch. It was forced on them despite many of them secretly hated it. They would not complain, because its something on them that they had to do and not refuse it. I have talked with Japanese who have eaten Whale meat, and their response was...

私は鯨肉を食べるのが嫌い Watashi wa geiniku o taberu no ga kirai ,(Kirai means HATE)

[Coventina]

70. Not surprised to hear that. From what I understand, it's not very appealing.

[yuiyoshida]

71. I asked my dad if he ever ate Whale

He said no.

[Coventina]

73. I don't know of any one in my family (or anyone I know personally)

who has.

I do have relatives who have eaten WHALE EGGS!



Needless to say, they are not family I like to associate with, and I avoid as much as I can.
They are vile and ignorant in many other ways.

For example: The husband returned a telescope to the place he bought because he believed it was defective.
"The stars kept moving out of the lens."

Duh, that's known as the rotation of the earth, you fool!!!!



on edit: typo

[yuiyoshida]

18. Some people HATE japanese...think we should be all exterminated...

Tell you what, I will go first!

[Hoyt]

13. That's BS.

[Coventina]

28. I'll speak slowly so maybe you will understand:

No....civilian.....populations....EVER...deserve....to.....be.....targeted.....with.....ANY....weapons.

[guillaumeb]

47. Non-white, therefore not considered "worthy victims".

Like the Vietnamese and Koreans.

[yuiyoshida]

49. Yeah, Right wingers hate us...

its a fact.

[Hoyt]

10. So far, we are the only country wanton enough to use nukes to kill people.

[yuiyoshida]

12. Thank goodness for that

now, watch some one break that glass ceiling....

[hack89]

29. We should have bombed, burned and starved them instead

much more humane.

[yuiyoshida]

33. Still want to do it?

Should Japanese Americans be included?

[hack89]

36. Of course not. Just pointing out the military choices available in WWII besides nukes.

the war would have continued using conventional weapons until Japan surrendered. Many more Japanese civilians would have died. Just like many had died prior to the nuclear weapons.

I love Japan and the people - lived there for four years. My daughter was born there. We have many Japanese friends.

[Hoyt]

40. Hack, they were beaten and certainly not a threat to us at that time. If we wanted to show off our

nukes, like you gunners like to show off your guns, we should have detonated one on a remote island or something. Fact is, we are the only country who has denotated a nuke, much less killing tens of thousands of people. It was pure retribution against people a lot of white wing Americans hated before the war.

[yuiyoshida]

43. Don't forget as far as detonation goes.. we are not alone in testing...

[Hoyt]

50. Testing is different. Israel, Pakistan, China and others have performed testing. But using it to

kill and maim, seems to be just us.

[yuiyoshida]

52. Yes as of this date...who knows what will happen

Tomorrow. It could even be us again.

[hack89]

44. Many countries have killed tens of thousands in a single attack

the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not represent a new threshold in civilian deaths. They were not even the deadliest bombing attacks in WWII.

Without the nukes, just as many, if not more Japanese civilians would have died. Like I said, we could have continued to bomb, burn and starve them to death. Japan was not going to surrender.

[Hoyt]

54. Like with guns, you guys always have a knack for justifying killing people.

[hack89]

75. Are you that ignorant of history?

You know as well as I do that extending the war by even a couple of months would have killed more people than Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not just Japanese but all the other innocent people being slaughtered by the Japanese in the countries they occupied.

.

[Kentonio]

17. I actually think if he tried to order a pre-emptive nuclear strike there would be a military coup

[yuiyoshida]

22. Gosh I would hope so

But knowing Republicans as cowards and liars, I doubt they would do anything other than stand by with mouths agape.

[Kentonio]

24. I'm sure the Republicans would, but I think the IC and military would rise up.

[hack89]

31. I can't see how that is possible

some officers might refuse orders but they will be quickly replaced.

[Kentonio]

74. If the Joint Chiefs of Staff decided the CiC was unfit

I'm sure they'd find a way.

[Skidmore]

25. Assad has nothing on Trump.

That MOAB was the next best thing to a nuke.

[Billy Jingo]

32. I am not certain that there will be another nuclear weapon used

But I am reasonably certain that if one is used, it won't be by the United States.

[Hoyt]

41. Yeah, like the fact we are the only country to kill people with nukes proves that.

[PoliticAverse]

34. Because people don't want to stay at a hotel built on a radioactive wasteland? n/t

[yuiyoshida]

46. heh...

I don't know, a lot of people do stuff on a dare...put wasabi up their nose...

By the way, Wasabi is not a Pepper....

[lpbk2713]

51. Trump will rationalize it as "making an example" of NK.

And of course NK won't be the only ones to pay. Trump will
be responsible for bringing down the entire planet.

[yuiyoshida]

55. I hope China has told Trump that

North Korea is their alley, You nuke North Korea and China comes after you. They already told him about Taiwan and stay the fuck, out of Taiwanese affairs.

[madokie]

53. If I was a betting man

I'd bet dollars to donuts that the orange one will use a nuke before this year is out. He has an itchy trigger finger just dying to scratch it

How is it that there are enough stoopid people in america to let them get even close enough in votes to steal this last election like they just did? I just don't understand it for a second, how its possible

[yuiyoshida]

57. They allowed it...

No one cares about politics outside of this bubble, I guess. Most people didn't know enough about Trump to even research his history. They just said, "Hey! He is that apprentice guy, I would vote for him, he is smart!!!"

[madokie]

68. Thats pretty much it in a nutshell

We're in deep doo doo is all I and most of us here know

[yuiyoshida]

69. I just hope Democrats can keep Republicans in check...

but we have lost way too many seats, and they are laughing and rubbing their hands together at the prospects... like some kind of Snidely Whiplash

[Demtexan]

56. You know he wants to.

Just a little one.

So he can see a beautiful mushroom cloud.

[yuiyoshida]

59. Its probably on his

bucket list.

[Demtexan]

62. Yep.

I amsure he has dreams about it.

Doesn't understand what will happen later.

[Demtexan]

63. I told friends to really enjoy the last holiday season with President Obama.

We might not get another one.

[jackssonjack]

58. Too many people do not value life .

[yuiyoshida]

60. Isn't that a part of the

Republican platform?

[jackssonjack]

64. It must be

because everything they do is for the purpose of monetary gain or cutting costs and if people are get in the way of either goal they will be tossed aside like worthless chattel.

[yuiyoshida]

65. Pretty much

You have to wonder how a political party can be as hateful as those regimes during WWII.

[lpbk2713]

66. That's a true statement.

If they cared they would be more mindful of our environment and
consider the kind of world they are leaving to their grandchildren.

[gordianot]

61. Nukes are used every single day in a balance of ultimate terror.

MAD (Mutual Assurred Destruction) never went away among the superpowers. If North Korea were to acquire these weapons they would have a status similar to Israel and the threat it had against the old Soviet Union. I would hope Trump had the talk before he got access to the nuclear codes. The Super Powers will institute doomsday as soon as their ability to detect an attack goes down. The way I had it explained to me MAD is blind mad vengeance and Congress, assemblies and committees do not get a vote.

[yuiyoshida]

67. yes...

[gordianot]

72. Kubrick and his movie was a serious warning.

Not far from an updated truth. The old Soviet Union was minutes away from a massive retaliation and was stopped by a mere Colonel. The attack on the Soviet Union was a computer glitch.