Timeline for Did Obama apologize for the USA using nuclear weapons on Japan?
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| Jul 16, 2017 at 11:50 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | The original text asserts that the atomic bombing of Japan was "in retaliation" for Pearl Harbour. It was not. The objective of the war was to achieve unconditional surrender, and the atom bomb seemed to offer the quickest and cheapest way to achieve that. The anticipated entry of the USSR into the pacific theatre may also have influenced the decision. | |
| Jul 16, 2017 at 0:44 | history | edited | Golden Cuy |
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| Jun 4, 2016 at 9:02 | history | edited | Sklivvz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2016 at 8:59 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | @billpg: If you can make it out (I can't, I don't see any useful attribution at all), add that information to the question. | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 8:59 | comment | added | Sklivvz | @AndrewGrimm yes, but let's limit the huge images if we can. They are a waste of bandwidth for every visitor and frankly often obnoxious. Don't roll back the edit, fix it. | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 8:57 | history | edited | Sklivvz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2016 at 3:49 | history | rollback | Golden Cuy |
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| Jun 4, 2016 at 3:49 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | @Sklivvz your edit truncated the picture. | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 2:03 | history | edited | Sklivvz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2016 at 9:42 | comment | added | Mast | @AndrewGrimm Mostly the former. | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 9:38 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | @Mast are you disputing the notability of it, or that it's a claim? | |
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| Jun 1, 2016 at 8:48 | comment | added | Mast | I fail to see a notable claim here. | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 8:22 | history | rollback | billpg |
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| May 31, 2016 at 21:43 | comment | added | jpmc26 | @gnasher729 Honestly, even if its use was the right decision done with the right motivations, we ought all feel a certain amount of remorse. (That doesn't necessarily imply anyone should offer some kind of formal apology, of course; I'm just saying that it deserves a certain sentiment.) | |
| May 31, 2016 at 21:19 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSkeptic/status/737755529687224320 | ||
| May 31, 2016 at 20:58 | history | edited | Sklivvz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 31, 2016 at 13:31 | answer | added | Golden Cuy | timeline score: 13 | |
| May 31, 2016 at 9:47 | comment | added | gnasher729 | @CarstenS: You could say that whoever wrote the text wrongly claims that the USA committed a war crime, is proud of it, and strongly dislikes Obama for apologising. When in fact there was no war crime, any decent people would be ashamed and not proud if it had happened as claimed, and Obama didn't apologise. | |
| May 31, 2016 at 9:07 | comment | added | Carsten S | @gnasher729, so essentially the image accuses the US of war crimes. | |
| May 31, 2016 at 9:02 | comment | added | billpg | @T.J.Crowder - The creator put their own attribution inside the image. | |
| May 30, 2016 at 21:18 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | @T.J. are you irked at the passive voice because of its use regarding atomic bombings? | |
| May 30, 2016 at 17:37 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | "...this image was made." How wonderfully passive voice. Who made it, where have you seen it? | |
| May 30, 2016 at 16:53 | comment | added | gnasher729 | If these bombs were dropped as retaliation then Obama and every other US president before him should better apologise. As it is, it wasn't retaliation, and there was no apology, because nobody asked for an apology and none was needed. | |
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| May 30, 2016 at 15:13 | comment | added | David Mulder | Despite being based on a false premise, also of important note is the fact that we're talking about entirely different order of magnitudes of civilians deaths (60 at pearl harbor). Doesn't change anything about the fact that the attack on pearl harbor was a surprise military attack outside of declared war, but apologizing for far over 100 000 civilian deaths wouldn't have been so crazy. | |
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| May 30, 2016 at 13:30 | comment | added | user22213 | Related: Why won't President Obama apologize for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? | |
| May 30, 2016 at 12:20 | answer | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | timeline score: 137 | |
| May 30, 2016 at 11:15 | history | asked | billpg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |