Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima - Aug 06, 1945 - HISTORY.com
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The Morality of Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Capitalism Magazine
Time magazine has page after page of photographs of people scarred by the radiation, as if General Sherman had not already said long ago that war is hell. As it was, the unconditional surrender of Japan enabled General Douglas MacArthur to engineer one of the great historic transformations of a nation from militarism to pacifism, to the relief of hundreds of millions of their neighbors, who had suffered horribly at the hands of their Japanese conquerors
Was Hiroshima Necessary?
"Japan was essentially defeated," he said, and "it would be wrong to attack its cities with atomic bombs as if atomic bombs were simply another military weapon." In a 1960 magazine article, Szilard wrote: "If the Germans had dropped atomic bombs on cities instead of us, we would have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them." US Strategic Bombing Survey Verdict After studying this matter in great detail, the United States Strategic Bombing Survey rejected the notion that Japan gave up because of the atomic bombings. In its authoritative 1946 report, the Survey concluded: The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs did not defeat Japan, nor by the testimony of the enemy leaders who ended the war did they persuade Japan to accept unconditional surrender
A noble lady who married to the brother of Manchu Emperor came back to Japan decided to go back to China, Her older daughter had double suicide because his family refused her, Chinese Chu En Rai prime Minister helped her to go back and apologized 'Sorry, I could not arranger before tragety of your daughter'". 14, 2013 - 09:01AM JST As horrific as the the atomic bombings were, I've never understood how people regard the bombs as somehow more inhumane than the fire bombings of Tokyo or the carpet bombings of Dresodon
In a June 18, 1945 meeting with Truman and his military advisors, Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy argued that Japan should be permitted to retain the Emperor and should be given a warning of the atomic bomb in order to bring an earlier and less deadly surrender (Walter Millis, ed., The Forrestal Diaries, pg. Rather than wait to see if the Hiroshima bomb would bring surrender, the atomic bombing order to the Army Air Force stated, "Additional bombs will be delivered on the above targets as soon as made ready by the project staff." (Leslie Groves, Now It Can Be Told, pg
So ask yourself, why did they really drop the bomb? A number of theories have been purposed; history.com outlines how it could have been dropped to demonstrate a new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviets. Have we learned from our mistake? The fact that nuclear weapons even exist is a discouraging fact, and I am ashamed to be a part of a race who has developed so many of them
When the bomb was dropped "in center of selected city", following the Target Committee's instructions, and exploded over Shima Hospital, clearly many civilians would be affected. It is a terrible thing to order the use of something that (here he looked down at his desk, rather reflectively) that is so terribly destructive, destructive beyond anything we have ever had
Report broken link Hiroshima: Was it Necessary? The Atomic Bombing of JapanA fine place to find quotes, biographies, links, and even the diary entries of the President and the Secretary of War regarding Truman's decision to bomb Japan in late 1945. Report broken link Conversation on the Existence of the BombOn July 24 I casually mentioned to Stalin that we had a new weapon of unusual destructive force
The Tunguska Event, a 1908 Explosion Estimated at 1000 Times More Powerful Than the Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
There was no crater, as they had expected, and the trees were still standing in about a 3 mile radius circle at the center, but with their limbs, bark, leaves, etc. This explosion was 21 kilotons, with casualties reaching a still staggering number of around 40,000 people instantly, with around triple that number estimated overall
Attacking Pearl Harbor was such a cowardly move the little Japanese people deserved exactly what they got, in fact we should have done about ten more in hopes of wiping the losers out. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor
First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan; Missile Is Equal to 20,000 Tons of TNT; Truman Warns Foe of a 'Rain of Ruin'
Yet, so close was the secrecy that not only were the citizens of the area kept in darkness about the nature of the project, but the workers themselves had only the sketchiest ideas- if any- as to what they were doing. Scientists, looking to the peacetime uses of atomic power, envisage submarines, ocean liners and planes traveling around the world on a few pounds of the element
MILITARY VIEWS About Dropping the Atomic Bomb
the question of whether we should drop this new bomb on Japan, in his judgment, involved such imponderable considerations as to remove it from the field of a military decision. For his part, all he could say was that the few little revetments and rural bridges that he might find to bomb in Kyushu wouldn't begin to pay for the fuel he was burning on his task force
But this is a ludicrous excuse because it says that America has the technology to build a bomb that runs on nuclear fission, but can`t figure out how to aim it. We did what was necessary to stop a horrible evil and it's sad that that proved necessary, but it was.What I think was NOT just was the internment of Japanese Americans in prison camps, that was NOT justified
Dropping the Atomic bomb on Japan :: Essays
The government kept the atomic bomb under such secrecy that if they did not want you to find out about it, you would not, so this option could not be tried. The Company makes no representations about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the Material or about the results to be obtained from using the Material
Boeing B-29 Superfortress - Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan
B-29 Hunters of the JAAF (Osprey Aviation Elite 5) by Koji Takaki, Henry Sakaida More B-29's arrived in the Marianas, including those from the former XX Bomber Command and some B-29B's, specifically lightened for nighttime pathfinding. At altitudes of 30,000 feet, manned gun turrets were impractical and Sperry developed retractable, periscopically directed, electrically powered turrets for the B-29
Was The US Justified In Dropping Atomic Bombs On Hiroshima And Nagasaki? - Japanian
Then I would wait a week and actually talk to the damn Japs and tell them they could keep their emperor so long as they abandoned colonialism and accepted a USA base. Might be worth looking into a bit on how much effect the US military had on pulling Russia into the war against Japan JapanianAugust 5th, 2009 at 3:41 pm @Craig: I think Roosevelt clearly wanted the USSR in the war and got them to promise as much at Yalta in February, 1945
We justified it then and still try to justify the obvious wrong of vaporizing thousands of innocent men, women, and children, including 23 American prisoners of war. One of the interviews was with Japan's leading physicist who also headed up Japan's atomic bomb research program ( yes, Japan was working on the atomic bomb as were several other countries in the 1930's)
Why did the US drop the atomic bombs on Japan
No decent Japan travel guide itinerary is complete without the locations on this list.The first atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was code named Little Boy. About ninety-nine percent of the Japanese people were, at the time of World War Two, direct decedents from the original nomadic Mongolian tribes that crossed over into Japan from the Korean Peninsula
On the other hand, the use of the bomb to contain Russian expansion and to make the Russians, in Truman's revealing phrase, "more manageable," comports completely with all known facts and especially with U.S. Major General Curtis LeMay commented on the bomb's use: "The War would have been over in two weeks without the Russians entering and without the atomic bomb
In 1945 the US military in anticipation of an invasion of the main islands and of the high casualties ordered the manufacturing of 500,000 purple hearts. That is simple most of our countries have many documents that were sealed for "security" reasons that generally have a 70 year limit as to protect some people's reputations that limit has just started to be reached for some of the worst part of the war and in this more gore the better society we are now living in people will pay for this, sad but true! AS for Japan it got off lightly 2 A-bombs and a total of 650,000 civilian deaths a short an very limited war crimes trial and it was over
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