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This is whale caught in the oceans off Antarctica by Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research. Mr Shoji buys the meat from them. The proceeds of the sales are used to help fund the Japanese research programme.

I could have sworn I posted about this, but I guess that was elsewhere. They should call it the Institute of Cetacean Slaughter.

We fought for peace, for justice, for seeing our world free of imprisonment under an insane dictator. “World War II was the most widespread war in history, and countries involved mobilized more than 100 million military personnel. Total war erased the distinction between civil and military resources and saw the complete activation of a nation’s economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities for the purposes of the war effort; nearly two-thirds of those killed in the war were civilians.”

The actual droppers of the bomb, via BBC: “The use of the atomic weapon was a necessary moment in history. We have no regrets”.

Wikipedia: A number of notable individuals and organizations have criticized the bombings, many of them characterizing them as war crimes or crimes against humanity and/or state terrorism. Two early critics of the bombings were Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard, who had together spurred the first bomb research in 1939 with a jointly written letter to President Roosevelt. Szilard, who had gone on to play a major role in the Manhattan Project, argued:

“Let me say only this much to the moral issue involved: Suppose Germany had developed two bombs before we had any bombs. And suppose Germany had dropped one bomb, say, on Rochester and the other on Buffalo, and then having run out of bombs she would have lost the war. Can anyone doubt that we would then have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and that we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them?”^[50]

It is my sincere hope, that whatever your belief of the necessity or cruelty of the situation, that we will never have to experience such horrific events. Even if you think it necessary, 70,000 people, mostly civilians, instantly killed is genocide.

One of the purposes of firebombing and aerial attacks and atomic weapons in WWII was to make civilians suffer for their governments warmaking and thus not support it.

The same stated purposes terrorists have in attacking US military or civilian targets.