Posted on 04/04/2024 9:25:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Later an advisory committee of four physicists actively involved in development joined them. They were Enrico Fermi and Arthur H. Compton of the University of Chicago; Ernest O. Lawrence of the Radiation Laboratory at University California Berkley; and J. Robert Oppenheimer head of the Los Alamos Laboratory where the bombs were being assembled.
The committee and scientific panel reached three unanimous conclusions, which Truman reluctantly agreed to, because he could see no alternative.
The bomb should be used against Japan as soon as possible.
It should be used against war plants surrounded by worker’s homes and other buildings susceptible to damage, in order to make as profound a psychological impression on as many inhabitants as possible.
It should be used without warning.
I think my source is Hell to Pay by D. M. Giangreco.
It was the correct decision.
This is not because I would have wanted to see Japanese civilians burn (even though, had I been alive and of age to consider it at the time, I am pretty sure I would have wholeheartedly and enthusiastically approved of its use, given the climate of the day)
If they had it, they would have unhesitatingly used it against us, as would have the Nazis. Of that, I have no doubt.
“In 1905, the idea that a non-white power could win a naval victory”
The Japanese look awfully White to me.
As I have often commented on this subject: “Do you think that if Japan had the bomb they would have used it at Pearl Harbor? Me too.”
I know they are sister companies, but I was pointing out that both subsidiaries are Korean owned, and that if Toyota retains any animus against Korea/ns that the two locations are equally disadvantaged.
The Japs got what they deserved and they’re lucky they finally gave up due to bombing
There were some local politics involving idiots (AKA Dems) in the ATL area that played into this. Long story.
I was deeply involved in Georgia politics during my four years in Columbus, GA, and was a delegate to a couple of state conventions. I always marveled at the ability of greater Atlanta area Republicans to mess everything up.
Did the Japanese Atomic Bomb Prompt Ours?
We now mark the 79th anniversary of dropping atomic bombs on Japan to end WW II. The decision not only considered horrendous casualties in the millions but had to assess Japan’s nuclear program. As WW II began, the U.S. knew Japanese intellectuals included accomplished physicists such as Yoshio Nishina. They knew he was a staunch Imperial nationalist and capable leader; so capable two students later won Nobel prizes. They knew he had built Japan’s first cyclotron in 1940.
Yet much was unknown throughout the war because America found Japan impenetrable except for cryptographic intelligence and photo reconnaissance. The allies had no agents in the Home Islands and most communication was by land line. Americans had to rely upon their primary principle for minimizing the uncertainties of intelligence analysis by deciding enemies will focus their command economies on realization of the most devastating weapon capabilities.
The next American insight into Japan’s progress came in May 1945 as Germany surrendered. Admiral Doenitz ordered all submarines to proceed to allied ports. In Portsmouth, the Navy discovered U-234’s cargo contained 560 kilos of uranium oxide destined for Japan and for refinement into fissionable material.
After the war historical research confirmed how close the Japanese came. They discovered Nishina used his substantial budget to conduct work at the large industrial complex at Hungnam Korea. One day after the Nagasaki bomb, Japan exploded an experimental nuclear device off that coast. Stalin’s forces captured Hungnam and Japanese equipment and scientists vanished inside the Soviet Union.
Partial bibliography:
Japan’s Secret War: Japan’s Race Against Time to Build Its Own Atomic Bomb, Robert K Wilcox
The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes
Yoshio Nishina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Nishina
Well, yeah, that too. Though this was definitely Democrats.
It’s pretty interesting, a lot of the grassroots REpublican county committees are now run by MAGA/Patriot types, vs. RINOs/Country Club types. Fulton, Cherokee, Forsyth, Chatman, a bunch of others.
Dropping the bombs saved Japan from a Civil War, as happened in Korea. The Soviets would have occupied the North, and would have made their move to take over the whole country.
Colonialist Settler ARABS should be forced to return to Arabia from which they invaded the native inhabitants of Jewish Israel, Eastern Orthodox Anatolia, Coptic Christian Egypt, and Lebanon, and Iran, and on and on.
“Not to mention Nanking.”
My Dad was in the Battle of Manila. He saw what they did there. 100,000 Filipinos murdered.
Oh yes...Manila. And the Civilians in Okinawa unfortunately believed the Japanese propaganda that the Americans were the Bad Guys” so they committed suicide en masse.
We are seeing this kind of propaganda again. Good is Bad and Bad is Good.
Grrrrr.
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