he drove a Toyota later in his life.
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The ‘real’ poser could/would be
Did ‘they’ give it to him?
Which brings up the enigma
Compare Hiroshima & Nagasaki in 1940-1945-1975-2015 with Detroit or quite a few other American downtowns.
The enigma being which causes the more lasting devastation to your town/city,
Nuclear Attack or LIBERAL Pols?
The pics should speak for themselves (of course a lot of ‘unknowns’ involved)
Our demand, from President Truman, before the bomb was dropped was for unconditional surrender. At the time even Eisenhower believed that this demand was unreasonable, that the Japanese were ready to make reasonable surrender, and that we would bear the odium for killing innocent civilians with atomic bombs.
Further, the willful killing of innocent civilians is a war crime, even if the purpose is to terrorize the enemy into surrendering to end the war. Which is what we were trying to do. Indeed, after the bomb was dropped, we made the absurd claim that Hiroshima was an important military center.
In the event, the Japanese did not unconditionally surrender. They demanded a major concession, that the Emperor remain as Head of State. We accepted this condition.
It is my view, that President Truman accepted conditional surrender because he was frightened by the prospect of being seen as a barbaric war criminal. Had the war continuad of the was, our atomic bombs would have been killing 100,000 civilians a month> After Nov 1945 when bomb production would increase, it would become every week. As a smart politician, truman knew that such mass slaughter would have grown very old very quickly.