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Showing Original Post only (View all)No Choice: Why Harry Truman Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan [View all]
https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-choice-why-harry-truman-060000970.html
Critics of the decision to use the special bomb in 1945 are judging men born in the 19th century by the standards of the 21st.
No Choice: Why Harry Truman Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan
Nuclear arms are hideous, immoral weapons whose existence continues to threaten our civilization. To say, however, that Harry Truman should have sacrificed hundreds of thousands of American lives because of what happened in the nuclear arms race decades later is not only ahistorical, it is moral arrogance enabled from the safe distance provided by time and victory.
Critics of the decision to use the special bomb in 1945 are judging men born in the 19th century by the standards of the 21st.
No Choice: Why Harry Truman Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan
Nuclear arms are hideous, immoral weapons whose existence continues to threaten our civilization. To say, however, that Harry Truman should have sacrificed hundreds of thousands of American lives because of what happened in the nuclear arms race decades later is not only ahistorical, it is moral arrogance enabled from the safe distance provided by time and victory.
Interesting article. My son did an internship at Oak Ridge some years ago, so we toured the facility where the bombs were built. They were projecting some scary American casualty numbers, had an invasion been necessary.
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Here's a longer article that also talks about the secret talks with Stalin...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2018
#1
Over a million Japanese troops under arms in China at the time of the surrender, perfectly capable..
Marengo
Aug 2018
#31
Germany wasn't considered as a primary target as its defeat was expected to occur before before
Marengo
Aug 2018
#63
If Japan blockaded Vladivostok and destroyed some of the bridges and tunnels of the...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2018
#13
Our atomic bombs killed 40,000 to 50,000 innocent Koreans who were held in Japan as slaves.
Goodheart
Aug 2018
#27
The Japanese or Germans would have used atomic weapons if they had them before us.
BSdetect
Aug 2018
#38
Uh, in regards to Germany being "years away", you are wrong. Heavy water was already being produced.
tonyt53
Aug 2018
#127
It was a weapon we developed to fight WWII, no one else had one until long after WWII was in the
braddy
Aug 2018
#39
Fact is, we are the only country to have killed thousands of innocent people with a "special" bomb.
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#34
My dad was ONE of them. In the first US landing in the Pacific, and war effort ended at Iwo Jima.
tonyt53
Aug 2018
#129
Why do you believe the "bomb em" folks. I don't see how annihilating two important Japanese
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#67
War was over, we are only country to nuke anyone, we are racist, we bully the world now and
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#114
And you aren't willing to accept another narrative either. No, I got the point on Civil War and I
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#118
Not just us, I bet the Chinese, Brits, Filipinos, Aussies, New Zealand, Koreans, etc., etc., etc.,
braddy
Aug 2018
#43
Some folks might have taken to streets, probably same ones who'd vote for trump or bush.
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#55
"Use it" especially against Asians. We could have demonstrated it on a deserted island.
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#76
If Asian casualties are a marker, what about Imperial Japan's "Rape of Nanking," in 1937?
VOX
Aug 2018
#98
So are you saying we nuked innocent Japanese 8 years after Rape of Nanking as justified retribution?
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#99
No, I'm not saying that at all. The thread was implying that nukes were okay'd, because...Asians.
VOX
Aug 2018
#116
The Japanese were slaughtering innocent Chinese, Filipinos, Indonesians, etc until the very end.
hack89
Aug 2018
#120
They were defeated and surrounded, do a little reading including Eisenhower's view.
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#130
We appear stuck on this issue, just like your support of guns. The two are similar in many ways.
Hoyt
Aug 2018
#137
They surrendered after the Soviets declared war on Japan. Correlation or causation?
malchickiwick
Aug 2018
#45
Actually, they had offered terms of surrender before Hiroshima (via the Swiss).
malchickiwick
Aug 2018
#60
Japan chose not to end the war and vowed to fight to the death before the first
beachbum bob
Aug 2018
#52
It must be the first week in August: DU gets to refight the war none of us remembers personally
Hekate
Aug 2018
#97
I had long discussions with my parents, especially my Mom on this before they passed...
hlthe2b
Aug 2018
#107