Anon wonders why he was so upset

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LemonFlavoredMelon@reddit

>Creates Hiroshima Ashtray Simulator
>Upset that Hiroshima is an Ashtray Simulator

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thr33beggars@reddit

It’s really fucked up that we dropped an atomic bomb or two on Japan, but Godzilla is super cool so did Oppenheimer really do anything wrong in the grand scheme of things?

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No atomic bombing, no traumatized nation with a dichotomy of simultaneous fear and embracing novel technology, no Japanese cyberpunk, body horror and anime masterpieces. Americans saved the day once again.

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DeepQueen@reddit

America, fuck ya! Comin again to save the mother fucking day, yeah!

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Sbotkin@reddit

It's also somehow not viewed as a war crime and genocide by Americans, when it pretty much was.

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Derpy_Derpingson@reddit

MFW when I bomb another country and then they bomb me back:

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Sbotkin@reddit

TIL Japan nuked USA

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SpookyHonky@reddit

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

19million+ dead and an empire that refused to surrender makes the 250,000 dead from nukes seem pretty generous

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jetvacjesse@reddit

Me when I’m braindead:

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BilleyBong@reddit

Japan is somehow given a pass for their horrific genocides and war crimes as well

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Razor265@reddit

I mean, two atomic bombs were dropped on them. Hardly a pass.

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qywuwuquq@reddit

Atomic bombs resulted in less war casualties by the virtue of ending the war.

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GrImPiL_Sama@reddit

The bombs at least made japanese men to shift their focus from devising war strategies to making them draw tentacle hentai.

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das_slash@reddit

Tentacle hentai preceded the atomic bombs for more than a century, it's a pillar of japanese identity.

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BooRaccoon@reddit

Didn’t the idea of Godzilla specifically come from witness accounts of the Castle Bravo test?

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SunderedValley@reddit

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SilliusS0ddus@reddit

Why is the wizard working in the assembly line instead of being on the board of directors.

Is he stupid ?

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TrumpDesWillens@reddit

C-Suite is usually made-up of Chads and Stacies.

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ilikesaying@reddit

Board’s filled with archmages, plus you get to fuck around with defective drones.

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fenixOdinsson@reddit

Why did this person ask question? Does he not know?

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SilliusS0ddus@reddit

Does he not know what ?

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fenixOdinsson@reddit

Knowledge

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xThereon@reddit

https://i.redd.it/l7e9dncqrcyf1.gif

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Inconspicuous_Shart@reddit

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SilliusS0ddus@reddit

gimme

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retsoPtiH@reddit

Oppagangnamstyle live reaction when the military tells him to build a scifi not-weapon that will not be used to kill people

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soiboi64@reddit

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Fern-ando@reddit

He felt bad because he wanted to turn german civilians into dust instead of japanese ones.

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Derpy_Derpingson@reddit

"Germany could've won the war if" MFers when they realize that Berlin would've become a mushroom cloud if Germany had held on for another 3 months

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SilliusS0ddus@reddit

Not really because the scenarios where Germany could still win WW2 are all way before the US even has the bomb.

Like Hitler not being a regard and ordering the Blitz right when the British air force was on the brink of collapse.

Or the German leaderships noumerous idiotic decisions during the invasion of the soviet Union.

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SpookyHonky@reddit

Yeah but those scenarios probably would've still led to the US having nukes and Nazi Germany thinking nukes are ~~woke~~ jewish science, opting for flashy toys instead.

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SilliusS0ddus@reddit

Those scenarios would probably also lead to the allies being unable to get air superiority in Europe.

Those scenarios without allied air superiority are the only ones where Germany isn't completely fucked. 1 big bomb doesn't make that much of a difference compared to 1000s of small bombs as seen with the fire bombings in Japan being similarly destructive to the nukes.

And there were elements within Britain and the US that might have been willing to negotiate if the war went badly.

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Icy_Magician_9372@reddit

I saw a documentary where nazis were busy digging up stupid shit like the ark of the covenant instead of inventing nukes. They didn't stand a chance.

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EmberMcLain_@reddit

Oppenheimer was a weeaboo who wanted a cute trad japanese gf

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Zermist@reddit

he didn’t see it coming nobody could’ve predicted the bomb was used as a bomb

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XDDDSOFUNNEH@reddit

Ain't no way 💀

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Silent_Killer093@reddit

He wasn't morally conflicted about the bomb itself, he was conflicted because he knew that if he didn't make it the germans or Japanese would have eventually, and thus made the bomb out of necessity in a race against time, fully knowing the destruction it would cause but understanding the necessary evil in order to win the war, it was a lose lose situation for oppenheimer and the world.

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Slide-Maleficent@reddit

Science is fun, mate. Discovering/inventing something entirely new - or at least, feeling you did for a moment - is a brain blast of an experience. I can very easily imagine someone getting so carried away with the act of creation that they don't really think about the actual thing they are creating until it see it in action.

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2FLY2TRY@reddit

Oppenheimer wasn't under any illusions, he knew they were making a weapon of mass destruction. He was morally against the idea but he also knew that the Germans were working on the bomb too and that the Nazis would have way less moral compunction about using it. If he refused to work on the Manhattan project, he knew the technology would still be created either way, but at least if he was in the driver's seat he'd have knowledge and some influence over it. Of course, Germany was defeated before they ever finished their bomb so that became a moot point. Japan, on the other hand, didn't have anything close to a working nuclear program. From Oppenheimer's view the bomb instead became a shortcut to end the war, rather than a counterarsenal which is probably why he reacted so strongly to its use. I think if Oppenheimer knew that the bomb was ultimately going to be used on the Japanese he probably would have refused outright to work on it.

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thoughtlow@reddit

yeah he could't use the moral justification he started with.

This wasn't 'kill evil nuclear Hitler that is going to destroy the world', but a 'lets wrap up this war quickly and see how much damage this bad boy can actually do.'

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Lord_Chromosome@reddit

The Japanese were arming their civilians with spears and telling them to kill themselves rather than surrender to U.S. soldiers. Dropping the bombs was absolutely the right choice and if you disagree you are an idiot.

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pm_me_your_weed_pls@reddit

Yep, even after the first nuke the Minister of War urged the civilians to fight to their last breath. Would've been absolutely horrible, probably as bad if not worse than the nuke casualties.

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SyntheticDuckFlavour@reddit

The Krauts were having a go at it, USA panicked, so they decided to beat them to it. Everyone knew what they were in for.

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PalmTheProphet@reddit

Yeah the act of inventing something brand new and especially paradigm-shifting is such an enticing thing people don’t take into account in these moral arguments. The whole “they were so interested in whether they could they didn’t stop to think if they should” thing

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Cleveworth@reddit

Well, what the fuck did he think they were making, a gigantic rice cooker?

^(They kinda were I guess)

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ReasonableWasabi5831@reddit

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8VgSyKl9vg0 for context

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Industrial_Enjoyer@reddit

His utter sadness wasn’t because it was utilized at all… it’s because it wasn’t dropped on Germany. He was disappointed the war was over in Europe.

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yeetzapizza123@reddit

Secretly just mad he didn't get to drop it

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ReturnRadio@reddit

(On the Germans)

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BLuca99@reddit

https://i.redd.it/3yzbru1sg8yf1.gif

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