[right-wing agnostic]

The author regurgitates the ahistorical bull $hit pushed by the late Howard Zinn and like-minded historians that the United States only dropped the atomic bombs on Japan because they were predominately a white (read: racist) culture in 1945. The author does note, seemingly dismissively, that Germany had surrendered before we tested the first atomic bomb at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. My pet peeve, other than the United States being considered a racist country for using the atomic bombs on Japan, is that they are often referred to as "nuclear" bombs. But we did not test our first thermonuclear bomb until November 1, 1952 when President Harry Truman ordered the hydrogen bomb, "Ivy Mike", to be tested on Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific./rwa

[Organic Panic]

The fact stood right out that we didn’t have a nuke to drop on Berlin. If we did, we would have used it. We did a terrific amount of damage on German targets much worse than the two nukes we dropped on Japan. Dresden comes to mind. Along with the red army invasion of Berlin.

And this isiot author makes no mention of Japanese belief in their superior race. Chinese weren’t even thought of as human beings when the imperial army marched through Shanghai and Nanking.

[RC one]

there have been a lot of arguments made about this. My feeling is that it was absolutely necessary to end the war decisively and on America's terms. In the absence of such a decisive American victory, the war would have continued and the resulting reality would almost certainly have been less favorable for America. So, I don't think it was racist at all, it was a final chess move designed to place America squarely and undeniably at the top of the global food chain. And here we are. still.

[PastorBooks]

From three days ago:

Dropping Atomic Bombs on Japan Was Imperative

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3189617/posts

[RC one]

Incidentally, my grandfather was stationed on Guam in the Army Air Corps. His job was to load bombs onto trucks and ships. He always claimed that he was twice tasked with driving a truck loaded with the A-Bombs down a long pier to waiting ships. He claimed he had no idea what the first one was other than "the biggest GD bomb I had ever seen" but he knew what was in the back of his truck the second time. Apparently a major storm was throwing waves over the pier the second time as he drove down it with a giant atomic bomb in the back of his truck.

That was his story anyways.

Grandma, bless her heart, was a nurse stationed at Pearl Harbor and then later at Saipan. She had some good stories too.

A toast to all WW2 vets. America's finest generation.

[wardaddy]

No but they were effective

[2ndDivisionVet]

Nuclear = “A-Bomb” and Thermonuclear = “H-Bomb” IIRC. BTW, I believe the “trigger” on an “H-Bomb” that gets the ball rolling is a built-in “A-Bomb” inside. Any physicists here can confirm that or correct me.

[Vendome]

Racist?

Which side was yellow?

[john mirse]

i have an uncle---who is still alive---who said that he was in a ship in the waters near Japan and getting ready to be among the first troops to invade Japan when the bombs fell. He may have died a very young man if the bombs were not dropped and he had to fight his way into Japan. The bombs may have saved his life.

So I agree completely with the decision to drop the two bombs.

He spent a few quiet months in Japan soon after the surrender.

[nickcarraway]

Did anyone point out that Germany is not an island? Germany was being invaded on two fronts, and there was no way Germany could have held out, like Japan possibly could have.

[nickcarraway]

Did anyone point out that Germany is not an island? Germany was being invaded on two fronts, and there was no way Germany could have held out, like Japan possibly could have.

[monocle]

Was the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor racist? Was the war in the Pacific racist?

[IChing]

So what if they were? What is wrong with protecting one’s extended family?

[9YearLurker]

I believe nuclear is a fair term for an atomic, or fission, bomb.

[RWB Patriot]

http://capitalismmagazine.com/2005/08/the-morality-of-dropping-the-atomic-bomb-on-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/

And the stay-at-homers can whine all they want, but the fact remains that the bombs were dropped and the US won the war. I don’t see them getting this case sent to any court, so it’s all just hot air.

[Smokin' Joe]

Had it been done with any other focus than ending the war, I suppose a few hundred incendiary missions could have been flown first...

Some of the horsecrap people come up with in retrospect is simply amazing.

Ending that war then likely saved millions of Japanese lives, not to mention considerable numbers of allied lives as well.

[Flick Lives]

There has been much controversy over the decision to bomb Japan and some speculation that it might have been racially motivated...

This ignorant author apparently is unaware of the firebombing of Dresden.

[Altura Ct.]

Yes - lets finally admit it. Anything and everything that whites have ever done is racist.

[sushiman]

[edpc]

The author seem to be ignorant of the fact Japan had its own Oppenheimer in Yoshio Nishina. He also ignores the racism practiced by the Japanese against other Asians, the Chinese and Koreans in particular.

[sushiman]