Second-Guessing Hiroshima?
https://origins.osu.edu/history-news/second-guessing-hiroshima?language_content_entity=en
“Criticism began within days of the obliteration of the two Japanese cities. On August 8, 1945, two days after the destruction of Hiroshima, former President Herbert Hoover wrote, “The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.””
I’m curious if the US Government allowed AP to publish these photos at the time.
There might be intelligence value to Japan, for example confirming targets were hit, or what ships were destroyed.
Democrats learned from Pearl Harbor...are using much more subtle methods to destroy the country.
Zero articles even highlighted on the West Coast.
So maybe, Pearl Harbor is more evil white racist B$!!
War never happens the way we think it should begin nor how we think it should end. All the space between those bookends can pretty much guarantee destruction and loss of life.
Today is the day to remember the horrific attack on our fleet and the chicken$#!t way it was done.
In today’s world, many would ask “Why don’t they like us?” And offer to surrender, because guns are bad.
We are in a different horrible place. I’m going to step away for a while, maybe a day, maybe a month. Health issues to take care of.
We have not yet hit bottom.
Paraphrasing Thelma and Louise movie ending, top down, sun in our faces, wind through our hair, smooth ride, not a bump in the road, and we are already gone off the cliff. Great times ahead.
Arm-chair historians can all look back and decide what should have happened from the perspective of having know what a better decision should have been.
What rubbish.
1945 the plan to invade the Home Islands had been laid out and the plan approved. Truman found out the bomb had worked in NM and mentioned it to Stalin.
Stalin already knew it had worked.
There has never been a weapon developed during wartime that was NOT used, the a-bomb, both variations, prove that.
Was Truman right to use them? Yes. They saved more lives than can be counted, an entire generation of people owe their very lives to the use of these two bombs and the subsequent surrender, which happened in spite of a coup attempt to derail Hirohito telling his people it was time to surrender.
My Uncle survived Pearl Harbor. He was stationed on one of the Destroyers that saw minimal damage. He had just left for shore leave. Three years later he was vaporized in an ammunition ship loading accident in the South Pacific.