Yes it’s true that was the actual reason for dropping the bombs, and yes civilians and POWs did die from them, but my criticism is towards Japan reinventing the narrative to make them look like the victims of WW2 and not the perpetrators which the atomic bombs do help them achieve. I’m not trying to make any arguments about whether using nuclear weapons were justified, but it’s very hard for me to have sympathy for a nation that was employing biochemical weapons in China at the same time.
Yes it’s true that was the actual reason for dropping the bombs, and yes civilians and POWs did die from them, but my criticism is towards Japan reinventing the narrative to make them look like the victims of WW2 and not the perpetrators which the atomic bombs do help them achieve. I’m not trying to make any arguments about whether using nuclear weapons were justified, but it’s very hard for me to have sympathy for a nation that was employing biochemical weapons in China at the same time.