Posted on 08/06/2021 4:50:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshima on Friday marked the 76th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing, as the mayor of the Japanese city urged global leaders to unite to eliminate nuclear weapons, just as they are united against the coronavirus.
Mayor Kazumi Matsui urged world leaders to commit to nuclear disarmament as seriously as they tackle a pandemic that the international community recognizes as “threat to humanity.”
“Nuclear weapons, developed to win wars, are a threat of total annihilation that we can certainly end, if all nations work together,” Matsui said.
The United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroying the city and killing 140,000 people. It dropped a second bomb three days later on Nagasaki, killing another 70,000. Japan surrendered Aug. 15, ending World War II and its nearly half-century of aggression in Asia.
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I heard some recently talking about the upcoming anniversary of the Atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima by saying...
“You Pearl Harbor us, we will Nagasaki you back”, remember that....
I just finished reading a book about the battle for Singapore.
Many of the guards were Sikhs and Koreans.
Japan deserved to have those bombs dropped right on their imperial palace. Japan invaded Asia and the Pacific islands and raped, burn, looted, and destroyed everything they could.
My bet those who object did not have relatives in the landing army.
Trtuth is we'll never know a correct number. So many people were disappeared, others died months or years later. What does it matter? It ended the war and the daily count of casualties.
If Japan had the atomic bomb they would’ve used it.
What did the Daily Worker have to say when Mother Russia acquired nuclear bombs?
Atom bombs are horrible.
But Japan’s need to save face outweighed it’s population’s desire to live.
I guess we all learned lessons, didn’t we Hirohito?
Wow - just back from looking at that website. Thanks for posting. I had no idea about Unit 731 and I’m 61 having studied WWII for a long time now. My Father was a Pearl Harbor Survivor and he had ZERO regrets about Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend Unbroken. The book does a good job covering Louie Zamperini’s journey during WWII. Eye-opening, will sadden you, anger you, and amaze.
My Dad’s uncle was an officer with the 1st Ordnance Squadron on Tinian, part of the 509th Composite Group. He assembled the Nagasaki bomb prior to its deployment in combat. God bless them all.
Let’s not forget that after the two nukes were dropped, the US continued to bomb Japan with conventional explosives up to the surrender date.
I learned this when on Okinawa back in 1968.
I just tried to find an on line source and here is the only one I found.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan
“Negotiations appeared to be stalled, and on 14 August Spaatz received orders to resume the bombing campaign. Arnold requested the largest attack possible, and hoped that USASTAF could dispatch 1,000 aircraft against the Tokyo region and other locations in Japan. In fact, 828 B-29s escorted by 186 fighters (for a total of 1,014 aircraft) were dispatched; during the day precision raids were made against targets at Iwakuni, Osaka and Tokoyama and at night the cities of Kumagaya and Isesaki were firebombed.”
For those who weep and wail about the nukes being dropped, many Americans came home from the war alive, including my dad, as a result.
Unit 731 is mostly for weird types like me. It was a horror show, but the war is over and we’re all friends now, right? So why bring it up?
No one who has a glimmering of understanding about the War in the Pacific has any regrets about nuking Japan. It saved a massive number of Allied lives and prevented the Japanese people from going extinct. Most of people against nuking Japan are overeducated twits and / or people who actively hate the US.
**but the war is over and we’re all friends now, right? So why bring it up?**
Ever notice how the world still hunts nazi war criminals from Germany but now give Japanese war criminals a pass?
Never start a war if you are not prepared to finish it!!!
My dad retired from the Army in 1963 (1939-1963). He never forgot that and all of the other atrocities the Japanese committed. He hated them until the day he died
We won the war with Japanese war lords and saved our country and way of life....pray we can do the same with Democrats!!!
My Dad was in Hiroshima 6 weeks after they dropped the bomb. He said if Truman hadn’t made that decision he probably wouldn’t have come back because they would have lost at least a half a million guys storming those Japanese beaches.
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