Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "The Truth About Why America Dropped Atomic Bombs on Japan" video.

  1.  @alwinsoria97  Fat Man was a plutonium device. We made plutonium in the Hanford Site. We could make fissile material on an industrial scale. Within 3 years of the atomic strikes we had thousands of nuclear warheads.
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  2. Try 10 million.
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  3. The bomb plane was accompanied by two other observation planes. So each nuke bomb run had 3 planes. Before the attacks we got the Japanese used to the configuration by flying many missions with the same profile. By the time it happened they thought nothing of it.
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  4. Losing a war to America is the best thing that's happened to a lot of countries.
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  5. Russia had no way of launching an amphibious invasion. Just because America happens to be good at it does not mean it is an easy thing to do. We used highly specialized equipment to manage to pull it off.
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  6. It'd certainly have made us one bomb short. Which was half of what we had at the time. For better, or worse, atomic bombs do not grow on trees. Early on they were extremely hard devices to get.
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  7. Our terms were unconditional surrender. That eliminates all discussion. We dictate, there is nothing to discuss. Once our enemy surrenders their fate is in our hands.
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  8. Uranium was incredibly difficult to refine. So we developed another kind of material for bombs called plutonium that was easy to manufacture.
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  9. Fat Man was a plutonium device.
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  10. US losses were projected to be as high as 2 million.
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  11. Every day American lives were at risk. Every minute, every second!
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  12.  @melissaharris3890  when I have to choose between us or them I pick us every time. Because one of those us could be me!
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  13. Who told you the war was unprovoked? We did everything we could to get Japan to attack us. Such as place a total embargo on them. You can't do that to an island nation with no natural resources of their own. We cut off their entire oil supply! That's provocation.
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  14. It was just one screwball and his company of soldiers. Their plan was foiled by a US air raid.
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  15. It was total war. Every inch of Japanese soil was a valid military target. If the roles were reversed just how discriminating do you think the Japanese would have been nuking the USA? They'd have chosen our largest cities going for the most casualties they could possibly inflict.
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  16.  @zerefsunlimitedshipworks  plus both cities were filled with Japanese. Don't forget that! All of those people were in on it. Japanese school children made incendiary bombs. So don't go telling me about any innocent civilians because there were none!
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  17.  Thisis Gettinboring  the last time I checked Nagasaki was in Japan so that made it a legitimate target. We were at war with all of Japan after all.
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  18.  Thisis Gettinboring  they all deserved it.
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  19.  Thisis Gettinboring  the Japanese were fanatical. For them dying for the Emperor was the greatest honor.
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  20.  @psychoticchannel3244  ending wars as quickly as possible is the only humane choice.
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  21. If you have a wonder weapon that can end a war instantly with a decisive victory you use it. Or you're some kind of a mental defective.
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  22. The only reason Japan didn't bomb the USA was because they couldn't bomb the USA. If they could have then they certainly would have. Consider their use of Fu-Go balloon bombs. Which did cause US civilian deaths.
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  23. It's just fortunate they were a small people, poorly equipped that you could blindfold with dental floss.
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  24. Your opinion is ignorant. All Japanese pledged their lives to the Emperor. So there were no innocent civilians. Every man, woman and child was a legitimate combatant. The factory that made the torpedoes used in the Pearl Harbor attack was in Hiroshima. Which is why it was chosen.
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  25. There's no such thing as a B51. The atomic bombs were dropped by B-29s The Japanese were pretty miserable at anti aircraft defense too. We pretty much flew unopposed over their country. We killed all of their trained pilots and they had trouble replacing them.
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  26. Why wasn't it justified? The Japanese attacked the USA and declared war on the USA. They grabbed the bull and got the horns. They grossly miscalculated the willingness of the USA to engage in warfare. Mistakes have consequences. We were fully prepared to wipe them completely out. That's how they dealt with their enemies too.
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  27. And those civilians throwing themselves off cliffs hurt US soldiers how?
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  28. We warned every city. We did it just to disrupt them. It was SOP. Heck we didn't even know which city we were going to nuke. The flights were given a list. If they had a clear target they were to engage.
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  29.  @eddardstark6554  no one controlled the weather. In fact Nagasaki was not the primary target of the second strike. You need to be precise dropping a nuke. It isn't a munition you want to waste. So if a target is obscured by cloud cover they hit another target. Kokura was the planned second city to hit.
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  30. At the time the US possessed two devices. We didn't have any to waste on uninhabited islands. As it was it took using two on populated cities to get the enemy to surrender. Which was all we had. War is presenting your enemy with a reality so horrible that surrender is the preferable option. Blowing up an uninhabited island does not inflict any harm on your enemy so it is easily shrugged off. Least if you destroy a large city it's one less city your enemy has.
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  31. The first 4 waves to invade mainland Japan were 100% written off as KIA. Then the next few waves maybe 20% would survive? In the face of those statistics we had no choice but to try to end the war with the atomic bombs. Ordering our own citizens to certain death was not something we wanted to do.
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