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Whitehall, you are an idiot. Japan was nowhere near surrender. ....
Yes it was. Feelers had been sent out sometime prior for terms to sue for peace.
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Whitehall, you are an idiot. Japan was nowhere near surrender. ....
1945
73 years have passed since the first use of an atomic weapon in war. Most of the 150,000 victims were civilians. Women, children, the elderly. The effects of this new weapon on real people shocked the conscience of the world, and its use at that time is still debated to this day.
Regardless of one's position on Truman's decision, it is fitting to take a moment to remember so many lives taken and the horror of war in general. There is a reason the monument to the event in the city is called the Peace Park.
Perhaps one moment in history we will never repeat.
Again the ONLY terms Japanese Government offered was a ceasefire and return to Nov 1941 start lines.Whitehall, you are an idiot. Japan was nowhere near surrender. ....
Yes it was. Feelers had been sent out sometime prior for terms to sue for peace.
Again the ONLY terms Japanese Government offered was a ceasefire and return to Nov 1941 start lines.Whitehall, you are an idiot. Japan was nowhere near surrender. ....
Yes it was. Feelers had been sent out sometime prior for terms to sue for peace.
I did not know. Thank you.I was coming home on a navy hospital ship, during the bomb dropping period. We got the news every day and I remember well the day Japan surrendered. What struck me was that Instead of cheers of joy and huzzahs the entire ship became silent, so silent that for the first time I could hear the noise of the ship's rudder adjusting to keep the "Bountiful" on course.
Whitehall, you are an idiot. Japan was nowhere near surrender. ....
Yes it was. Feelers had been sent out sometime prior for terms to sue for peace.
Perhaps one moment in history we will never repeat.
Is it possible that some actually think the Japanese people had a voice in the military clique that ran Japan? Can we seriously hold that vengeance on civilians is justified by what radical militarists inflicted?
That humans could take the marvelous revelations about the universe that physics delivered and be so stupid as to turn out massively destructive instruments is a profoundly sad commentary on our species.
Again the ONLY terms Japanese Government offered was a ceasefire and return to Nov 1941 start lines.Whitehall, you are an idiot. Japan was nowhere near surrender. ....
Yes it was. Feelers had been sent out sometime prior for terms to sue for peace.
The terms offered were the same as what was eventually accepted anyway.
This is the saddest picture I've seen in a really long time, honestly.
This is the saddest picture I've seen in a really long time, honestly.
You've not seen the victims of Japanese bayonet practice in China; good. They'd make you ill as they did me.
Greg
Nor does the Orange Glow.Perhaps one moment in history we will never repeat.
Don't count on it. There are a lot of nuclear capabilities out there; and we've seen a lot of shameless politics by Democrats and Republicans who clearly don't have a fine enough appreciation for the danger.
Nor does the Orange Glow.
73 years have passed since the first use of an atomic weapon in war. Most of the 150,000 victims were civilians. Women, children, the elderly. The effects of this new weapon on real people shocked the conscience of the world, and its use at that time is still debated to this day.
Regardless of one's position on Truman's decision, it is fitting to take a moment to remember so many lives taken and the horror of war in general. There is a reason the monument to the event in the city is called the Peace Park.
What is up with your signature??