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It’s time to end the myth that the US needed to drop atomic bombs to end World War II (www.sacbee.com)
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Not a new revelation, but the article pulls from good sources and it's nice to see this myth repudiated in a mainstream outlet.

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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

The US wouldn't kill in the name of protecting Asian lives because the US didn't care about Asian lives. They literally had Japanese American children in concentration camps at the time. Half a decade later they'd commit to a massive genocidal war in Korea, and before that they'd do plenty of mass killings of peaceful protestors in Korea.