Hiroshima
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only times that a nuclear bomb has been used in war. And we are still in possession of them. I would have thought that these two atrocities alone would be enough to make us disarm. If not, then surely the Cuban Missile Crisis would have been. But no, evidently not.
One of the interesting things about these two atrocities is that they were used against civilian targets, after America had just called the Blitz "inhuman barbarism". Then what was Hiroshima? What was Nagasaki?
What makes them even worse was that the Japanese were looking for peace. Was an unconditional surrender, as opposed to the conditional one that the Japanese undoubtedly wanted, worth the murder of all those innocent civillians?
Antoher strange thing is that the commander of the Enola Gay (the aircraft that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima) expressed remorse. Oppenheimer, the man that invented the bomb, should remorse also. The pilot of the Enola Gay didn't. Hmmm, I wonder why?
One of the interesting things about these two atrocities is that they were used against civilian targets, after America had just called the Blitz "inhuman barbarism". Then what was Hiroshima? What was Nagasaki?
What makes them even worse was that the Japanese were looking for peace. Was an unconditional surrender, as opposed to the conditional one that the Japanese undoubtedly wanted, worth the murder of all those innocent civillians?
Antoher strange thing is that the commander of the Enola Gay (the aircraft that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima) expressed remorse. Oppenheimer, the man that invented the bomb, should remorse also. The pilot of the Enola Gay didn't. Hmmm, I wonder why?
posted by CJM | 7:47 PM
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reply to cjm's post on hiroshima:
'sfunny. i knew a guy in nyc—a leftist, strangely—who was glad we nuked japan 'cause his dad was on a troop ship headed west across pacific then, so he thinks he might not've been born if we hadn't dropped a-bombs.
i think you're right. japan mos likely would've surrendered w/o invasion. they knew red army was about to enter war and US and brits had'm surrounded at sea, and china still had 2 armies fightin' back.
but it's complicated. truman thrust into job a few months earlier when fdr died. he knew nothing of bomb before. "experts" brought him up to speed, most likely told him he had to drop it or stalin would demand a piece of japan if they surrendered w/o invasion, or we'd lose too many men if we had to invade.
politics as usual....
http://phobizone.blogspot.com/2005/08/to-reality-or-something-like-it-on.html
I'm assuming that you are aware of the fact that the US used depleted uranium armour piercing rounds in the Gulf war.
The only nation to actually deploy radioactive materials in warfare - and they call themselves humanitarians. Sheesh.
Indeed I am aware of this fact.
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