KENNEY FLIERS RIDE TYPHOON TO JAPAN; B-29’S ALSO STRIKE (8/6/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 8/6/45 | Frank L. Kluckhohn, W.H. Lawrence, L.S.B. Shapiro, Tillman Durdin, Hanson W. Baldwin

[beef]

I would bet that a good portion of that 10% were Soviet sympathizers who were worried about the Bombs implications for the communist movement.

In August of 1945, Americans were sick of war, and they were overjoyed that we had the weapon that would end it. If we withheld it and instead invaded Japan, tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Americans would have died. It would eventually come out that we had the means to avoid that. I think we would have seen Rosenberg style outcomes for those involved.

[beef]

More to your question, there is definitely some kind of guilt complex at work there. I would call it “success guilt”. You see it all them time in the enviro movement.

[PeterPrinciple]

In November 1945, the Army Air Forces asked Los Alamos for 200 Fat Man bombs. At the time there were only two sets of plutonium cores and high explosive assemblies.

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The above is interesting on reflection.

1) We never find a definite statement on how many active bombs there were or WHEN. We had exploded 3 including trinity. We can safely assume there were more in the pipe line.

But this would indicate there were two more available at the time of the scheduled invasion. And I think we would have used them in the invasion.

2) Perspective on Russia was definitely in place regarding the order for 200 more.

[colorado tanker]

Or have we simply been propagandized to the point where nearly half of us can't think straight any more?

Given what I've seen over the last decade I tend to think this is the case.