[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by DARISC

Reflecting on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I wonder, had the enemy been on the European continent rather than on islands in the Orient, all other factors being equal, do you believe we'd have dropped the bombs on westerners?

The Japanese people's stature, appearance and culture was very foreign to us at the time (and to many, still is); given Pearl Harbor, many no doubt considered them "subhuman" to have committed such a horrific and cowardly act (what was the number of civilians killed?).

I suspect the answer is that we would not have. It seems that there would likely have been an unspoken, quite likely even unrealized, racial consideration that would have entered into the decision.

So, we nuked a lot of Japanese. Would we, could we, have nuked a lot of Europeans? It seems many posting on these political threads are proponents of nukeing a lot of Middle Easterners.

Thoughts?

Yes.