Americans say, US nuked JPN to end the war. Is it acceptable, North Korea nuke US to end the war in the world?
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In the case of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on Japan, there was a World War going on with Japan using military power to take over countries all over the world.  The United States was a non-participant in these events until it was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor, thereby declaring war on the United States and opening itself up to attack by United States forces.\n\nJapan had declared that there would be no surrender and it had begun arming all of its civilians to resist invasion.  The estimated death toll from a direct assault on the main island of Japan was in the millions based on extrapolation of the death toll from the capture of Okinawa.\n\nAs for North Korea, there has yet to be a declared war between North Korea and the United States and while there are scattered conflicts occurring throughout the world, there is definately not a war of the scale of World War II currently happening.\n\nThe decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan was calculated to end one conflict, the one with Japan.  There was never any belief that these events would bring an end to all the war in the world. History has shown that there will always be another power to step in and fill the void when another power is removed or collapses. If Korea did follow your suggestion to attack the United States with nuclear weapons and was successful in toppling the United States, that would merely create a vaccuum for the next power to step into.\n\nIf your plan follows the same path as post World War II, that would merely place North Korea in the position of being the world's superpower and having them "bully" their way around the world, eventually leading to someone from another nation, perhaps a South American country, to post a similar question, this time being "North Koreans say, NK nuked US to end the war. Is it acceptable, Argentina nuke NK to end the war in the world?"
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koreans  aren't a threat, what is a few nukes compared to the 12 000 the US already own? is there any greater threat to the world than The US Star Wars project? I don't think so.\n\nis there a greater threats than a country that already use nuke on another or have an history of violence and coersion on poor people?
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I agree with the answerer who states that the term "Weapons of Mass Destruction" is a term the media came up with for dramatic purposes, I will use the term in my answer just for the sakes of ease and clarity.\n\nWhile some of the answers I read to this question target the United States of America, the US government does not "support" the indescretionate use of weapons of mass destruction.\n\nThe only parties that support the indescretionate use of wmd's are the like of terrorists. \n\nI must, however, concede that America did bomb Japan twice and have done our best to turn parts of countries like Afganistan and Iraq into parking lots if you take my meaning, we did not do that without absolute cause. The United States, as well as other countries with "wmd's", only supports their use when all other options have been exhausted. \n\nThe two Atomic bombs we dropped on Japan were reciprocity, and they worked. Japan was not a big problem afterwards. As far as the massively heavy artillery we have used in Iraq and Afganistan, they were simply needs of war. \n\nAt the end of the active cold war, the leaders of the United States and Russia both agree on a hope that anyone with weapons powerful enough to destroy the world, (ie, Nuclear bombs) would be smart enough to never use them.\n\nIn other words, America and Russia were in a race to have the most Nuclear bombs...not to use them, but to keep the Nuclear Equilibrium. Whereas terrorists aquire one dirty bomb simply for the purposes to use it.
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I don't think America would like to be the ones to let the Genie out of the bottle again. See, we used the bomb to end WW2 and saved not only American Lives, but Japanese lives too. It was estimated that over a MILLION people would die if we invaded Japan.\n\nThe trouble with nukes is they are area wide weapons. It takes out everyone, good people, kids, bad people, and anything else in that area. America would much rather try to do things conventional if they could.\n\nI think that we need to send the message, world wide, that if a nuke goes off, or a dirty bomb in the US, what ever country support that group that committed that crime, will be visited by us. We will bring the million degrees of heat and they supply the sand and we will turn their country into a glass parking lot.\n\nWe cant let terrorist run our country, even with threats of attack. We have to stand strong, or bend over and kiss it good bye cause, they will come after us if we leave Iraq undone and incomplete.\n\nAre you listening Democrats???? Then who are you going to blame for that attack????
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Hiroshima was nuked, you need to rephrase your question.
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Yes. Period. \nWhy don't we attack North Korea? Because they don't have it? Why don't we overthrow Kuwait's emir, and install democracy? because they have oil.
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By Teruaki Ueno \nSun Jun 18, 11:57 AM ET\n \n\n\nTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan warned        North Korea on Sunday of "a harsh response" from Tokyo and Washington if it went ahead with the launch of a long-range missile.
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You people are truly misguided, if Korea is looking for nukes and long ranges missiles , it is because of a global arm race that include the US.. it perceive the US as a threats..\n\nbefore you talk , you should evaluate the bliX report  on WMD , it basically say that the US is directly responsible for a global arm race....and see the recommendations,,\n\n\nBlix report available below..\n\nhttp://www.wmdcommission.org/files/Weapons_of_Terror.pdf\n\nThe US should lead example by getting ride of nuclear weapons..\nsee what american Noam Chomsky say on the importance of disarmement..\nhttp://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?itemid=10449
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Japanese hate the Koreans because they were really former rivals, politically and economically. Read the history of the 2nd World War. Now they still have territorial disputes. In addition, if North and South Korea get united under North Korea, the latter will really be a threat to Japan.\n\nThey accept America because though America had caused considerable damage to Japan during the wnd World War, the former contributed and continues to the the economic status and security of Japan in the form of the so-called Nuclear Umbrella.
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DJ Noek has it right.  Germany was Japan's ally. We declared war on Japan immediately, so Germany declared war on us.  So then we declared war on Germany.
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If our actions in Iraq are not a war then that event in the Pacific in the 40s was not a war. Japan attacked without declaring war.\n\nA war is a war....and we should face up to the fact that we invaded Iraq...not for the people of Iraq but for america
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The US, of course. We had a purpose in 1945, when several of our men were killed by the Japanese Imperial Army. But to defend ruthless murder, like the bombing of an innocent Iraq, is bullsh*t. I refuse to justify Vietnam, Iraq, or other times that we have slaughtered women and children. I refuse to glorify the murder of children abroad and at home, let alone the many other twisted truths about are US. But don't blame the country, blame the ringmasters that ARE leading us to hell. Thank the Bushes, Reagan, Nixon and several other bastards that contributed to the blood that lies on our hands and the hate that is blown to us by millions. As far as I am concerned, anyone who defends the actions of the Conservative Horsemen may as well wish death on the US, democracy, and the world.\n\nAs for the war in Iraq, why the hell would anyone claim that as an excuse of the greatness of the American Forces. How many other countries are killing their own citizens? What have we done in Korea? To Osama Bin Laden? In Louisiana? What about poverty? Drugs? The defecit of the United States? To defend the murderers of our country is to spit in the face of Lady Liberty, to piss on the graves of Harry Trumam and John F. Kennedy, who actually helped to save the United States, and to congratulate and bow to the feet of Satan himself.
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North Korea is in nuclear weapons development, and the USA still sends them food. I'm serious. \n\nNorth Korea believes the USA won't stay out of its business, and feels having nukes will finally get the USA to have direct talks with them.\n\nThe USA should have talks with them, and use diplomacy to solve this crisis. War with a nuke North Korea would be devastating the the USA and it's Pacific allies.
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lol...i think they will do that.... call every body else as "Terrorist"\n\notherwise they would have destroyed their nuke first.....they just want to keep their nukes and restrained others not to keep them..by saying....."deadliest weapon ...we are still sad after using on Japan twice........ (bull*s*hit)........Just to keep hold on others..
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america doesn't give a shit about other people, they've supported probably half the dictators around the world at one time or another, we supplied both iraq and afghanistan with weapons when it was in our best interest. The wmd thing is bullshit, do you really think the united states would attack country that actually had nukes? of course not that's we invaded iraq and not north korea
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Riot,\nToday we can debate this issue with the aspect of both hindsight and foresight. When Mr. Truman made his decision, he did so knowing only what the possible outcome could be. His view was to save American lives, and I believe he made the only choice he could. Consider, had that event not took place, and the US invaded mainland Japan, the suspected killed in action count was to exceed one million US soldiers. If your father, or grandfather were among those causalities, you would not be here to ask this question. My heart goes out for the Japanese that lost their lives in this event, but thankful that we as a species have not found it within ourselves to use this weapon again!
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We have been in conflict with North Korea since the war ended. No peace treaty was ever signed. Just a cease-fire. We support South Korea. And one of the stated goals of North Korea is to take back the south. They are also developing (we think) nuclear weapons. We do not want anyone who does not like us to have this type of weapon.