Posted on 08/06/2023 10:17:26 AM PDT by McGruff
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, 1945, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The bombings resulted in thousands of causalities in Japan.
The decision to drop the bombs on the cities is controversial, even today, due to how many lives were lost. Thousands of people died from the atomic bomb, but the action also ended World War II.
Here is everything you need to know about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb.
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The Japanese government brought what happened to the Japanese people at Nagasaki and Hiroshima on themselves when they decided to cowardly sneak attack Pearl Harbor early on a Sunday morning.
THAT is all anyone needs to know.
My Dad was in Hiroshima 6 weeks after the bomb then went on to be with the occupying forces in Tokyo for 6 mos before being shipped home. He said the farmers were already planting the fields when he landed in Hiroshima.
........More people, including civilians, died in the fire bombing of Tokyo........
You’re right!!
And the entire world is hurt by those who make August 6 “Hiroshima day” instead of Transfiguration Day!!!!
The damage to Hiroshima was limited compared to the total destruction of Tokyo and I think Yokahama as well
Also compared to what the Germans did to Warsaw.
Given the American public’s concern about getting the troops home asap, I wonder short of the a bomb how long we could have sustained a high-casualty invasion?
Which is what makes the annual discussion about the Bomb so tedious.
Our government had decided long before August 1945 that Japanese civilians were a legitimate target.
Every argument about the Bomb is nothing more than pushback against the idea that the American serviceman was morally capable of carrying out bombing raids which targeted civilians. (It was only the "Japs" and the "Krauts" who did Bad Things; anything done by the "greatest country in the world" was a moral necessity.)
And that makes perfect sense. If you merely rely on the most sensationalistic stuff, you can be very very wrong. Relying on the most conservative numbers, and it STILL makes sense? Then you do it.
When he did, he was asked, “How long til we can get one?”
Something militants of all stripes continue to ask to this day.
the decision to retain the emperor ran COUNTER to all US public opinion polls. It was taken because MacArthur and Nimitz thought it would be easier to disarm and control the civilians if the emperor went along with the plan.I>
That's also wise. If they're willing to commit murder-suicide for him upon command, then they'd be willing to accept a peaceful surrender upon his command as well. If he was eliminated (by suicide or military action), the cleanup would have been horrific.
Well, since you put it that way, maybe we should have held off on the bombs.
We did not bomb Tokyo during the night in a sneak attack, I think it was the japs that bombed Pearl Harbor, but that was a long time ago, maybe I'm wrong.
And it was precisely how the Japs fought at Okinawa, that made the decisions extrapolate that out to what an invasion of Japan would require, and made it an easy decision.
Also of course, it was also meant as a message to the Soviets, that we weren’t just going to let them walk in and take their half of Japan.
So they recognized the actual global status quo from the preceding decades. So?
Had the Germans or Japanese developed the bomb first, there would have been no hesitation to use them on London, Sidney, New York, San Francisco or anywhere else they could target.
Thank God cooler heads prevailed and we kept the Emperor in place.
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Mine too.
Maybe they knew each other.
My dad passed in 2015 at age 89.
A few weeks short of 90.
I'm sure there will soon be a movie honoring The Rosenbergs.
Calm down there, cowboy. It's been 78 years of peaceful existence since then. They're still wildly racist to their core, but that aside, they're going to be a major major factor when China finally makes their move.
That being said. I wonder now if Imperial Japan would be preferable to the Communist Chinese?
History teaches us that one baddie always replaces another.
If we hadn’t had the bomb to make them surrender, and the US faced HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of US casualties in an invasion, do you have any doubt in your mind that US public sentiment would have approved the total extermination of the Japanese people, using our stockpile of chemical weapons and incendiaries?
But for the bombs, my dad would have moved from the European campaign to the invasion of Japan, which would have put my own existence in jeopardy. So yes, I see no problem with the bombs.
I mean, they started it at Pearl Harbor. We finished it, and it was not easy.
How many A-Bombs did we have at the time beyond the two that were dropped?
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