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There was no question, no doubt that atomic bombs would cause immense destruction.
The triangle shirtwaist factory gave activists a rallying cry for protections, but the people in charge of that factory could have easily predicted that locking the doors to a factory could be dangerous.
Again- immense destruction is in no way the same as seeing the shadows on the wall, the severe burns, the radiation sickness, the birth defects, etc.
What that they didn't during see during the Trinity test was that it wasn't just a great big powerful bomb. It was far worse than that.
The only way anyone could have known exactly how horrific an atomic bomb is would have been to use it. Which was horrific, but because of it we didn't have a much bigger war using such weapons as we very well could have done in 1962.
Yes, that's my entire point. It was a horrible tragedy, but because of it, other such tragedies got much less rare.
Hell, just a normal bomb should not have been dropped on Japanese civilians. What you're arguing only makes sense if you think that's okay. Bye
So you think I think the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was okay? The black death was okay?
I really don't know why you won't admit that good things can come out of tragic things and just because that's true, it doesn't justify the tragedy. That's just how the world works.
That's not what you're arguing. It's part of it, but you're also saying that dropping the bomb was the only way we could have known it would be bad. Horrible take. Anyway, as I said, bye.
I'm pretty sure I know what I was arguing better than you do.
Or do you think you know me better than I know myself?