PugJesusM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world • 9 months agoJapanese schoolgirls training with a machinegun for the anticipated American invasion of Japan, WW2, 1945media.kbin.socialimagemessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1398arrow-down111cross-posted to: forgottenweapons@lemmy.world
arrow-up1387arrow-down1imageJapanese schoolgirls training with a machinegun for the anticipated American invasion of Japan, WW2, 1945media.kbin.socialPugJesusM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world • 9 months agomessage-square72fedilinkcross-posted to: forgottenweapons@lemmy.world
minus-squareBiptalinkfedilink4•9 months agoI feel that reaching your conclusion on that basis would have been all but impossible without the benefits of hindsight.
minus-squarePugJesusOPMlinkfedilink1•9 months agoI meant in reference to the post-war attempts at nuclear restraint, not Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I feel that reaching your conclusion on that basis would have been all but impossible without the benefits of hindsight.
I meant in reference to the post-war attempts at nuclear restraint, not Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Also, long-term effects were not known then