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'Oppenheimer' draws debate over the absence of Japanese bombing victims in the film (www.nbcnews.com)

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Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it's complicated.

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[-] kayjay@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

His reasoning was if the US didn’t make it, the Nazis would, and that would be even worse. He never wanted to make the bomb, it was just the lesser of two evils.

[-] RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Making the bomb was a good decision, dropping two over civilians after the war finished was genocide.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 year ago

But the war wasn't finished.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The US was never trying to exterminate the Japanese race and culture, so no it wasn't genocide. It was a fucked up act of war, maybe you could even call it an atrocity, but calling it a genocide is wrong by definition.

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