75th Anniversary

[Unkotare]

75 years since a dark day in human history. Each year there are many ceremonies and visiting dignitaries who gather at the site to memorialize those who died that day, and to resolve to prevent any such actions by anyone in the future. This year, due to the Corona virus, only those remaining survivors and a few government officials were in attendance.

Hiroshima marks 75th A-bomb anniversary, urges unity amid pandemic

Hiroshima marks the 75th anniversary of its atomic bombing by the United States on Thursday, with its mayor urging the world to unite against grave threats to humanity -- be they nuclear weapons or the novel coronavirus pandemic -- by spurning nationalistic and isolationist policies.

english.kyodonews.net

 

[Unkotare]

President Truman said, "You have got to understand that this isn't a military weapon. It is used to wipe out women and children and unarmed people, and not for military uses..."

 

[Mac-7]

The atomic bomb saved a million lives, including both American and Japanese

 

[Disir]

My mother was in the house when it collapsed. She also lost her younger sister," Naganuma said. "I grew up in Hiroshima, so Aug. 6 is a day about thinking about the bombing. But when you look outside Hiroshima, I've noticed that even Japanese people now don't know so much about it."

Yanno, people not remembering this is a smidge terrifying.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

August 6th 1945, and 3 days later Japan cries 'uncle'.


Atomic bomb dropped on Japan's Hiroshima 75 years ago still reverberates

75 years after Hiroshima, they're still feeling its impact

“It’s too late to stand up after everyone dies,” said Masaaki Takano, 82, who walked home from school amid toxic "black rain" that followed the blast.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Unkotare]

The atomic bomb saved a million lives, including both American and Japanese

That tired old story is banal speculation meant to avoid a difficult moral issue.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

 

[jwoodie]

Atomic bomb dropped on Japan's Hiroshima 75 years ago still reverberates

Murderous attack on USA's Pearl Harbor 79 years ago still reverberates. As do Japan's unspeakable atrocities against Korea and China. I hope they remember it for a long time, not to mention the fact that it saved them from an invasion that would have killed millions more of their own people.

 

[Alexandre Fedorovski]

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Sixteen hours after the bombing, the White House released a statement by President Harry S. Truman, who was en route from the Potsdam Conference aboard the U.S.S. Augusta. "It is an atomic bomb," Truman announced, "harnessing . . . the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East."



The immediate public response to news of the Manhattan Project and the atomic bombings of Japan, as filtered through the project's public relations efforts, was overwhelmingly favorable. When asked simply "do you approve of the use of the atomic bomb?", 85 percent of Americans in one August 1945 poll replied "yes." Few doubted that the atomic bomb had ended the war and saved American lives, and after almost four years of war, few retained much sympathy for Japan. The writer Paul Fussell, who as a 21-year-old second lieutenant was slated to be part of the invasion force going into Japan, perhaps has put it most succinctly:

When the bombs dropped and news began to circulate that [the invasion] would not, after all, take place, that we would not be obliged to run up the beaches near Tokyo assault-firing while being mortared and shelled, for all the fake manliness of our facades we cried with relief and joy. We were going to live. We were going to grow up to adulthood after all.

A certain sense of remorse also slowly began to build among the public, especially as details became known of the destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An important early step in this process was when the entire August 21, 1946, issue of The New Yorker magazine was devoted to stories of the devastation of Hiroshima. (These articles were later reprinted as a book: John Hersey's Hiroshima.)

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

And if Japan had not ATTACKED AMERICA, guess what.....they wouldn't have had to go through it at all.

Pearl Harbor, After Japan attacks America. Thousands of Americans perish

Ninety minutes after it began, the attack was over. 2,008 sailors were killed and 710 others wounded; 218 soldiers and airmen (who were part of the Army prior to the independent United States Air Force in 1947) were killed and 364 wounded; 109 marines were killed and 69 wounded; and 68 civilians were killed and 35 wounded. In total, 2,403 Americans were killed, and 1,143 were wounded.[93] Eighteen ships were sunk or run aground, including five battleships.[10][94] All of the Americans killed or wounded during the attack were legally non-combatants, given that there was no state of war when the attack occurred.[21][22][95]

Of the American fatalities, nearly half were due to the explosion of Arizona's forward magazine after it was hit by a modified 16-inch (410 mm) shell.[nb 16] Author Craig Nelson wrote that the vast majority of the U.S. sailors killed at Pearl Harbor were junior enlisted personnel. "The officers of the Navy all lived in houses and the junior people were the ones on the boats, so pretty much all of the people who died in the direct line of the attack were very junior people", Nelson said. "So everyone is about 17 or 18 whose story is told there

 

[Propofol]

"
Seventy-Аive Years Ago on August, 6 We Killed a Hundred Thousand People"
LEARN TO SPELL!
WHO IS WE?

HIROSHIMA WAS A BLAST!
SHOWED THEM THAT USA IS #1 YOU BUTTERCUP!

 

[eagle7-31]

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Sixteen hours after the bombing, the White House released a statement by President Harry S. Truman, who was en route from the Potsdam Conference aboard the U.S.S. Augusta. "It is an atomic bomb," Truman announced, "harnessing . . . the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East."



The immediate public response to news of the Manhattan Project and the atomic bombings of Japan, as filtered through the project's public relations efforts, was overwhelmingly favorable. When asked simply "do you approve of the use of the atomic bomb?", 85 percent of Americans in one August 1945 poll replied "yes." Few doubted that the atomic bomb had ended the war and saved American lives, and after almost four years of war, few retained much sympathy for Japan. The writer Paul Fussell, who as a 21-year-old second lieutenant was slated to be part of the invasion force going into Japan, perhaps has put it most succinctly:

When the bombs dropped and news began to circulate that [the invasion] would not, after all, take place, that we would not be obliged to run up the beaches near Tokyo assault-firing while being mortared and shelled, for all the fake manliness of our facades we cried with relief and joy. We were going to live. We were going to grow up to adulthood after all.

A certain sense of remorse also slowly began to build among the public, especially as details became known of the destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An important early step in this process was when the entire August 21, 1946, issue of The New Yorker magazine was devoted to stories of the devastation of Hiroshima. (These articles were later reprinted as a book: John Hersey's Hiroshima.)

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Invading Japan in 1945-46 the US would have had 1 million casualties. While I can understand second thoughts years later, I believe dropping the bomb was the right decision.

 

[my2¢]

I wasn't around back then but it gives me an idea what our U.S. forces were up against when the first atomic bomb alone wasn't enough to put an end to the Japanese' war effort.

 

[Shelzin]

War sucks... News at eleven.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

It was necessary. AND WE'D DO IT AGAIN!

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Today Japan and The USA are close allies.

I guess we did what we had to and the Japanese realize it.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

It was necessary. AND WE'D DO IT AGAIN!

Well, we were the only ones on the planet who had nukes at the time.

I guess if we had been the evil, War Mongering death state that leftists claim the USA is, we could have demanded the surrender of ALL nation states at that time including Russia. It was about a year later before Russia had a working nuke

 

[Alexandre Fedorovski]

And if Japan had not ATTACKED AMERICA, guess what.....they wouldn't have had to go through it at all.

Pearl Harbor, After Japan attacks America. Thousands of Americans perish

We CAN talk about it SINCE the lack of reaction of the American military authorities to the numerous warnings about the forthcoming Japanese attack at that time is COMPLETELY SIMILAR to THE LACK OF RESPONSE of the administration of the reincarnated alcoholic Bush Jr. to warnings by CIA and Mossad field officers about the presence in the country of a group of young Arabs who were trained to drive wide-body Boeing, but who systematically missed landing classes.

And what were ordinary Japanese people to blame for - men, women, old people ... children??? You SO love to talk about them!

I am READY for THIS discussion.

 

[Theowl32]

Yeah the Japanese reaped what they sowed.



The Nanking massacre alone. They could have surrendered and instead they were making clandestine plans to surrender to stalin.

The cold war began with with the USSR after the Yalta Conference in February of 1945.

The choice for democrat Truman was...

Let the ussr take Japan after the US fought the war with Japan.

Go to war with the ussr like Patton wanted since we had a distinct logistical advantage and the ussr made it clear they were planning to aggressively spread communism to the world. It still would have cost a hundred thousand American lives and would have been an impossible sell to the American people which is essential according Sun Tzus Art of War.

Drop the bombs and let the ussr what is coming their way if they don't back off. August 8th 1945 the ussr declares war on Japan since they were obviously considering not surrendering to the ussr after Hiroshima. August 9th Nagasaki is dropped. August 15th Japanese Emperor announces UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.

What do you do?

 

[Indeependent]

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Sixteen hours after the bombing, the White House released a statement by President Harry S. Truman, who was en route from the Potsdam Conference aboard the U.S.S. Augusta. "It is an atomic bomb," Truman announced, "harnessing . . . the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East."



The immediate public response to news of the Manhattan Project and the atomic bombings of Japan, as filtered through the project's public relations efforts, was overwhelmingly favorable. When asked simply "do you approve of the use of the atomic bomb?", 85 percent of Americans in one August 1945 poll replied "yes." Few doubted that the atomic bomb had ended the war and saved American lives, and after almost four years of war, few retained much sympathy for Japan. The writer Paul Fussell, who as a 21-year-old second lieutenant was slated to be part of the invasion force going into Japan, perhaps has put it most succinctly:

When the bombs dropped and news began to circulate that [the invasion] would not, after all, take place, that we would not be obliged to run up the beaches near Tokyo assault-firing while being mortared and shelled, for all the fake manliness of our facades we cried with relief and joy. We were going to live. We were going to grow up to adulthood after all.

A certain sense of remorse also slowly began to build among the public, especially as details became known of the destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An important early step in this process was when the entire August 21, 1946, issue of The New Yorker magazine was devoted to stories of the devastation of Hiroshima. (These articles were later reprinted as a book: John Hersey's Hiroshima.)

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If every war resulted in a nuclear response, wars would end yesterday.