
#785 - Were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings War Crimes
The Counsel of Trent
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The Arguments for Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night is one of the least known but most amazing and potentially horrendous operations undertaken by any of the belligerent powers in the Second World War. If the operation had been put into practice, it would have worked. Thousands of people would have been infected with plague. But using a weapon that indiscriminately targets civilians with a painful agonizing death being covered in boils and vomiting blood as would happen with plague, that'd be a war crime.
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