Far reaching Political and Socio ramifications will continue debates on the Great power of new Atomic weapons--the debate on a world with total destructive power- for ages to come.
On this day I think every American should reflect back again to give a silent prayer for : ---all those who bravely served in our Military,and Present, ---for the then leadership that was wise enough to decide to use this new weapon, ---and for ther fact that it was a Democratic-Based Nation such as AMERICA FIRST that was able to develope and have use of this devestating destructive power in order to halt the aggression of such Nations as Japan- and to also set the stage for America's FUTURE protection against the very next Big Threat against the Whole World Again some short few years later; the Spread of COMMUNISM and Communist Russia's plans for world domination too.
America has almost always been at the forefront of such technological advances and Thanks be to God that it was us ; a Country Founded on Religion and Religious Freedom, Individual Rights and the beliefs in the Principles of ; Life, Liberty and pursuit of Personal Happiness set in a Democratic Belief System.
And again:
Thank God for Our Brave U.S. Military and all who have served this Country Bravely through-out our History- and our Past Presidents such as Ronald Reagan and Present President George Bush for seeing the wisdom that it is only the Threat of Force AND Force that keeps a Free Nation Free.
And Thank God that at this present dangerous time in the Worlds' History- that the likes of John "U.N." Kerry, Hillary clinton, John Muthra, Howard Dean and the rest are no-where NEAR any such power that lies in the White House and the Presidency.
Darth Airborne
If only Harry Truman was in charge today...
He made the announcement from a SHIP? Did the press have a hayday (heyday?) with it, back then? ;-P
It was the afternoon of August 5, 1945. To a group of six hundred army officers assigned to the Hiroshima garrison, Professor Yoshitaka Mimura of Hiroshima Bunri University, a theoretical physicist, was explaining the scientific possibilities of new weapons which might reverse the tide of war. Japan had little Navy or Air Force left. Within months a massive invasion of the home islands seemed likely. “Could you tell us, sir”, a young lieutenant colonel asked, “what an atomic bomb is? Is there any possibility that the bomb will be deployed by the end of this war?”Mimura chalked a rough sketch on the blackboard to illustrate the [nuclear] reactions required. Scientists at Tokyo University, he explained, have “theoretically penetrated” the secrets of nuclear fission. If they could apply their theories practically, an atomic bomb “could be smaller than a piece of caramel candy, but, if exploded five hundred meters above a populated city, it could destroy 200,000 lives.”
“When can we have that bomb?” “Well, it is difficult to say”, Mimura answered, knowing nothing of any Japanese enterprise to apply fission theory to bomb-making. “But I can tell you this much: not before the end of this war.”
And using the bomb saved hundreds of thousands of American and Japanese lives by overwhelming the Japanese and destroying their will to fight along with killing about 100,000 Japanese (Nagasaki bomb did about the same).
There is a lesson here.
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Thank God for the bomb.
While we were impressed with ourselves at the time, we probably wouldn't say that exactly that way now. The hydrogen bomb was still a few years away.
This is a good day! All kinds of Leftist morons will spout off about how evil we were and the great thing is they NEVER actually understand the situation at the time. The number of people we killed that day was less than the number of people starving to death each week because there was a war going on. With any luck, their argument will be slayed by facts and they will move on to explain how we started WW2 with a Japanese oil embargo and we knew Pearl Harbor was coming. I can play with some people for hours with this game.
Another event that happen on this date.First use of the electric chair in the United States (1890)
Thank you President Truman, you saved the lives of 2 of my uncles along with hundreds of thousands of other brave men.
The "Euro-Weenies"(etcetera,ad nauseum)of today would characterize this as a"Disprortionate Response"!In their eyes,we should have waited for Germany and Japan to acquire nukes so they could hit us back????