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Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it's complicated.

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[-] Umbrias@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Well of course it's not, the us government wants to

The movie does a decent job portraying why nuclear bomb development was so much more complex than simply a necessary evil, a good, or an unnecessary evil. It's just not a simple topic with easy answers.

The left is not in agreement about the usage or development of the bombs.

[-] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Quite frankly if the U.S. didn't develop it, Germany would have. And they would have used it just like the United States did.

[-] Tarte@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Germany was already defeated and occupied, so I have a hard time following your logic.

[-] arcrust@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Not great logic saying that Germany would have. But he does have a small point. A lot of our reason for developing it was because we thought Germany had been working on it. Our development started before Germany had been defeated and we had reason to believe (via espionage) that they at least had collected the materials needed, and had scientists familiar with the physics. After the war, we discovered that their program was no where close to actually making a bomb. We probably could have, and maybe should have stopped once Germany fell.

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