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Film about ‘father of the atomic bomb’ finally opens in Japan after being delayed by outrage at ‘Barbenheimer’ memes

Archived version: https://archive.ph/8vjF7

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

It's the one thing I think the movie totally dropped the ball on. There was an opportunity to show what happened in Hiroshima, and Chris didn't take it.

After seeing Oppenheimer I started reading Hiroshima Diary by Michihiko Hachiya, it's pretty harrowing stuff. And I was already aware through other cultural osmosis/research what conditions on the ground were like after the bomb. What a wasted opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Something is most keenly felt in its absence

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Twice as many Japanese would have died had we invaded.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Actually, the Japanese were already trying to find a way to surrender at the time. The Soviet Union invading would've been the last straw, the US was trying to get in a bomb first because they didn't want the Soviet Union to have a victory. And to them, that was worth hundreds of thousands of lives.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Those weren't the only choices.

The bomb could have been used on a military target rather than an overwhelmingly civillian population.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Those weren't the only choices

True, if you don't know about it, look up the bat bomb.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

And so many allies

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