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0 pointsramraj074y ago0 comments

Looks more like you don’t want to use the word interesting independent of other feelings you may have about the topic. The story of the making of the atomic bomb is one of the most interesting stories of all history in my opinion. The smartest minds ever to live on this planet decided and agreed it was of the greatest urgency to do what they did and no sane person would argue otherwise.

The single greatest night of destruction in Japan during the war was not either of the nukes but the fire bombing of Tokyo. If the Americans didn’t make the nukes, at some point someone else would have. That’s the beauty (and interesting thing) about technology - it’s inevitable. You really can’t pick and choose. You can slow it down sure but never fully stop it.

If you want to understand the world and this topic with more nuance than a teenage hippy sayin “nukes bad Mann” then I will recommend “The making of the atomic bomb” by Richard Rhodes.

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throwaway826524y ago

>Looks more like you don’t want to use the word interesting independent of other feelings you may have about the topic.

>If you want to understand the world and this topic with more nuance than a teenage hippy sayin “nukes bad Mann”

These comments are incredibly and egregiously pointless, wrong, rude, condescending and dismissive, don't do this. I know about the story and a lot of the history of the war and I still don't find it interesting, sorry. It's just depressing and angering to study, even though it is very necessary to study for a valid historical perspective and even though a lot of it was very inevitable from what the war had already escalated to. That's where you've very badly lost the plot.

ramraj07OP4y ago

Again not sure what exactly are you saying is rude. Just because someone’s offended we need to change the meaning of the word “interesting”?

throwaway826524y ago

Nobody is offended and nobody is trying to change the meaning of anything. You're assuming I know nothing about the topic and that's rude and makes for bad discusson. Don't do that.

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throwaway826524y ago

>Looks more like you don’t want to use the word interesting independent of other feelings you may have about the topic.

>If you want to understand the world and this topic with more nuance than a teenage hippy sayin “nukes bad Mann”

ramraj07OP4y ago

Again not sure what exactly are you saying is rude. Just because someone’s offended we need to change the meaning of the word “interesting”?

throwaway826524y ago

Nobody is offended and nobody is trying to change the meaning of anything. You're assuming I know nothing about the topic and that's rude and makes for bad discusson. Don't do that.

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