Today marks the 58th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. That is nothing to be gleeful about, really.

Here are some comments that I found to be rather interesting, from a post on Tim Blair’s blog:

This was on Fark and one of the commenters named Thale summed it up well:

“While American scholarship has undercut the U.S. moral position, Japanese historical research has bolstered it.”

American scholars: The use of atomic bombs by the U.S. on Japan was a wholly unnecessary thing.

Japanese scholars: No, we wouldnt have surrendered otherwise.

American scholars: Yes you would have. All we had to do was drop Fat Man on a small Pacific island to show you we had it.

Japanese scholars: No, really the military wasnt going to stop fighting.

American scholars: Well if wed allowed surrender with the provision that Japan could keep the Emperor.

Japanese scholars: Look even after you guys dropped both bombs the military didnt want to surrender. It took us beating a downed pilot into saying you had hundreds more Atomic bombs and Tokyo was next for them to even start to budge.

American scholars: Well we were still wrong.

And on a similar note (of sorts), here’s some commentary from Stephen Green on how the aftermath of waging warfare has changed in these modern times.