OK, enough trolling, clayp. I can see where you're coming from.
there was a third bomb btw. It was en transit to Tinian at the time of the surrender and was of the plutonium (fat man) variety. Most of us in this world are glad that the surrender came no later and with no more death than it did, but your position is shared by many Koreans that i have met.
Why the Japanese were so cruel is worth asking. In WW1 the Japanese captured the German garrison in Tsing-tao, and apparently treated them in a friendly manner although the facilities were antiquated. This caused some confusion among German POWs.
I guess the difference in treatment of pows and other non-combatants lies in the contexts of the two wars, but this little story puts a question mark over the assumption that it was an ingrained cultural phenomenon.
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