Posted on 04/21/2016 4:41:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
The dropping of two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 remains the only wartime use of nuclear weapons in history.
No one knows exactly how many Japanese citizens were killed by the two American bombs. A macabre guess is around 140,000. The atomic attacks finally shocked Emperor Hirohito and the Japanese militarists into surrendering.
John Kerry recently visited Hiroshima. He became the first Secretary of State to do so -- purportedly as a precursor to a planned visit next month by President Obama, who is rumored to be considering an apology to Japan for America's dropping of the bombs 71 years ago.
The horrific bombings are inexplicable without examining the context in which they occurred.
In 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill insisted on the unconditional surrender of Axis aggressors. The bomb was originally envisioned as a way to force the Axis leader, Nazi Germany, to cease fighting. But the Third Reich had already collapsed by July 1945 when the bomb was ready for use, leaving Imperial Japan as the sole surviving Axis target.
Japan had just demonstrated with its nihilistic defense of Okinawa -- where more than 12,000 Americans died and more than 50,000 were wounded, along with perhaps 200,000 Japanese military and civilian casualties -- that it could make the Americans pay so high a price for victory that they might negotiate an armistice rather than demand surrender.
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Robert E. Lee
America needs to apologize for Obama.
Amen
Who bombed Detroit?
If Obama makes an apology, he is setting himself up for destruction.
the bombs were dropped specifically to kill large numbers of people to begin the ending of a terrible war. The Japanese were intractable in their efforts to die for their Emperor. the bombs allowed 140,000 to do just that.
The naive boy in the White House is not America, and all know he does not represent the views of Americans. He is an idealist pacifist that has no grasp on history and the way men conduct their affairs to protect themselves from enemies intent on destruction
Want to know why dropping the bombs was necessary?
How many nuclear bombs were dropped?
Why, if the bombs were so terrible, did it take two bombs before the Japanese quit?
—— if the bombs were so terrible, did it take two bombs before the Japanese quit?——
Actually, the Japanese didn’t quit. The ruling members were split on the issue. The question was put to the emperor and he quit. Those opposed to quitting then resigned
Actually, those opposed to quitting attempted to mount a coup to override him.
Yes, NOW you’re on to something!
“Remember when these were seen around town??”
Yep!
Remember crawling under your desk in elementary school during an air raid drill?
When I read a book or see a movie set in England during the Blitz I realize how soft and wimpish our society is now.
good call
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