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our le inventions le killed people? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Context: two people who developed extremely destructive weapons, were horrified by their use, and had biographical films made about them.

Jiro Horikoshi was a Japanese aviation engineer who designed the dreaded Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen ('Zero' to allied pilots). J Robert Oppenheimer was a US physicist who led the development of the nuclear bomb.

Note that The Wind Rises is only partly based on Horikoshi's life, and also borrows from Hori Tatsuo's semi-autobiographical novel The Wind has Risen (itself named after a French poem) and director Hayao Miyazaki's childhood experiences of WW2.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That last statement is disputed - the Soviet declaration of war probably had a greater effect on Japan's surrender. In any case, Oppenheimer was definitely horrified by the atomic bombings.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, maybe, it's debatable. What we do know is that both events very much did play into the war ending early