Japan earned Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Posted on 05/03/2008 10:58:43 AM PDT by freerepublic_or_die
The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing.
These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces.
Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb.
Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008. Three of these photographs are reproduced in Atomic Tragedy with the permission of the Capp family. The entire set is available below.
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You have a good point but..
I remember W.W.II and what I see in these comments is what I believe. If we are going to fight a war then lets do it to win. No matter what it takes. Get them with whatever it takes before they get us. Period.
If we are going to ask some to literally fight that war then let us civilians stand aside -- I'm guessing, more American civilians have been killed here in America by radical Muslims than were killed throughout the world during W.W.II
"In my view, the stakes are much higher in the war on terror than in anything we've faced since World War II, and probably World War II as well," former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers.
I for one am very, very happy to see the comments on this thread! This war to defend against radical Islam is for all the marbles too.
That’s a perceptive way of putting it all in perspective particularly when presented by left-wing historical revisionists who want only to evoke, self-loathing. recrimination and guilt for having won the war. War dead? Better Jap war dead than American.
The bomb ended up saving even more Japanese lives than American lives.
As many or more Japanese people were killed during the Okinawa campaign. That result magnified a hundred times, would have occured if we had invaded southern Japan, not to speak of maybe a hunded thousand Americans KIA. That’s why Truman didn’t blink when he ordered the use of the bomb: he saved perhaps millions of lives.
There were plans to unleash horrific plagues onto the US mainland by balloon which as a matter of fact the Japs did manage to accomplish to a limited degree with balloons having landed in Washington State during the war.
The medical facilities of Unit 731 as it was called was every bit as diabolical, horrific as the Nazi medical experiments.
Much to its discredit the US granted immunity to those of Unit 731 in exchange for their research in an effort to best the Soviets in this unexplored arena of bacteriological weaponry.
For more information on Unit 731
Wikipedia:Unit 731
Japan earned Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
There were lots of other Japanese war criminals.
If they had been pursued down to the concentration camp guard for two months level that the Nazis have, we’re talking perhaps hundreds of thousands of them.
BTW, given the assumption, probably correct, that USSR was indeed working on biological warfare, the amnesty given Japanese scientists is not entirely unjustificable. Damaging our chance of surviving a future war in order to punish the perps from a past war isn’t a great idea.
There is also a great deal of debate about the extent to which the Unit 731 guys actually came up with any valuable knowledge. It is likely that many of their “experiments” were essentially torture sessions without much real scientific value.
Look at things this way, the commie scum wanted us to win WWII. We were their allies. The peace movement of the later years was to convince us that we were better RED THAN DEAD.
What I see is an American president who had the cahoonas to do what was politically expedient and also what was best for the military. By then WWII was beginning to be very unpopular with the folks here at home. Truman saw the political need to end the war quickly and did. Although very unpopular, he instituted the Marshall plan, made McArthur governor general of a defeated Japan. And set the WEST on a course that finally forty years later led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
By the way a close family member was on the way to invade the japanese homeland when the fires of hell rained down on Hiroshoma and Nagasaki.
Immolate the commie scum in our own country.
Caddis
Those are some inspiring photos. Recalling a time when this country could take a hard line with its enemies and not pretend to have adopted all the displaced citizens.
If we had any nationalistic spirit left, that is what Iran would like like right now.
While these blood-thirsty,unrepentant war-mongers relentlessly refuse to accept responsibility,culpability for immoral conduct during the war in the full unqualified manner their victims for decades have implored them to do, they have the unmitigatingly brazen arrogance to milk Hiroshima and Nagasaki of all the emotional capital they can muster.
I fully agree. I would like to suggest that when we unconditionally win the war, we stop fighting.
not entirely justifiable? I'd have to agree with you.
If not immoral, morally repugnant? ?I'd say, possibly, probably.
Let’s see, do the critics prefer pictures of:
500 lb. bomb victims,
Napalm victims, or
People cut in half by 30 cal. rounds?
Was America obligated to conduct a “nice war” in response to Pearl Harbor?
German scientists who worked on the German rocket programs intended for attacks on British civilians were amnestied and recruited for US programs.
OTOH, the Allied bombing campaigns against Germany were intentionally designed to kill as many civilians as possible, so we didn’t have great justification for getting up on a moral high horse over the issue.
I agree. War, including cold war, consists largely of morally repugnant actions.
I don't believe, after Hiroshima we would of gone through with the invasion of Japan. We would of tightened, if anymore was possible, shipping. Japan would of starved, and what little industry/fuel would not of been able to produce any anti-aircraft threat. After that, Curtis LeMay (God bless him) would of just burnt, blown, roasted and vaporized every major city.
The Japanese didn't not surrender because they wanted to, liked to, were glad to, or were tired. They knew, bone deep, that is was surrender or they would be no more.
Its not really hard at all. The Emperor agreed to convince the populace to submit to the surrender and the occupation. If he had been executed, he would have been elevated to martyr, and we would still be fighting Japs today.
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