My view is that the images from Hiroshima and Nagasaki allowed people to see the destructive power of these weapons and the horrors of the wounds inflicted. It’s my strong belief that those images that prevented nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union. I also strongly believe that without Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we’d have seen nuclear exchanges between nation states.
I think you are very naive if you think the images of survivors didn’t do anything to prevent nuclear war. Of course there is no “evidence” because how could you prove something like this. Also it’s your own bias and perhaps your politics that leads you to believe that I’m rationalizing.
I didn't say that images didn't do anything. In addition, I would expect someone to call me naive, not for what I wrote, but rather if I'd thought that what stops powerful people from doing horrible things are images of suffering civilians.
It’s my strong belief that those images that prevented nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union.
I'm going to guess it's more because neither government was willing to find out if they could survive the other side's nuclear attack. Who wants to rule a country with all the major cities destroyed, transportation recked, the economy in ruins, massive humanitarian crises, etc.
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My view is that the images from Hiroshima and Nagasaki allowed people to see the destructive power of these weapons and the horrors of the wounds inflicted. It’s my strong belief that those images that prevented nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union. I also strongly believe that without Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we’d have seen nuclear exchanges between nation states.
I can't read this in any other way than just speculation for which the primary purpose is to act as a comforting rationalization to what happened.
I think you are very naive if you think the images of survivors didn’t do anything to prevent nuclear war. Of course there is no “evidence” because how could you prove something like this. Also it’s your own bias and perhaps your politics that leads you to believe that I’m rationalizing.
I didn't say that images didn't do anything. In addition, I would expect someone to call me naive, not for what I wrote, but rather if I'd thought that what stops powerful people from doing horrible things are images of suffering civilians.
I'm going to guess it's more because neither government was willing to find out if they could survive the other side's nuclear attack. Who wants to rule a country with all the major cities destroyed, transportation recked, the economy in ruins, massive humanitarian crises, etc.
Ugh in part because of the images from Hiroshima/Nagasaki.