My dad was in the Battle of the Bulge & still in Germany in August '45. He & his brothers in arms worried that they'd be sent to finish the war with Japan. Dad was grateful to HST for ending the war when he did. As a Baby Boomer, so am I.
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My Dad was in Germany and he said the same thing.
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We should be very careful criticizing these decisions from the comfort of 2018.
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Minuscule minority criticize it.
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The decision to use the bomb was 'baked in the cake' long before Truman took office, a mere 113 days after FDR's death. Truman didn't even know it existed. The more compelling, and believable reason, was to stop the Red Menace march into the South East Pacific region.
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The most important humanitarian act of the 20th Century. Rest assured the real devastation was vital to show in a very tiny way... yes Hiroshima/Nagasaki were tiny; what would happen with 100x more powerful nuclear weapons. Only seeing these A Bombs prevented WW3.
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It was an atrocity that prevented a war to the man with Japan. I wouldn’t call it a humanitarian success though. It was necessary at that point but Japan’s military industrial complex and expansionism was largely moulded as a response to western colonialism and racism.
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I disagree. The 1920s and 30s Japanese were highly racist. They committed Nazi Holocaust level genocide against the Chinese. They were as worse with the Koreans. The US traded with Japan during these.. lots of steel for example. No, you are wrong sir. Japs were another Theocracy.
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The Tripartite Intervention after the first Sino-Japanese war shows how the great powers viewed Japan as a bit more serious, but second class by nature. Japan emulated western power structures during the Meiji Restoration to avoid predation; they would have likely become a colony
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Saying Japan was a theocracy simply because the emperor shrouded in cultural mysticism is moot; it swayed between a constitutional monarchy / oligarchy with an often contentious relationship between the military’s gang like factions and imperial politicians.
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Nicely refined, thanks
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No defense needed.
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Would love it,
@BeschlossDC, if you would give us a transcribed copy. Tiny type wicked hard on these old eyes. -
Here is a transcribed copy of the letter from the Truman Library: https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/documents/fulltext.php?fulltextid=24 …
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What's troubling, is he would do it again.
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Why? He felt he had made the right decision.
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Thank you for sharing this, a lot of people no longer have living relatives that remember WWII, and condemn the bombing without a good understanding of the facts that were known at the time and the feelings that held by soldiers and their families.
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Any reasons why those casualty figures at Pearl Harbor were 100x higher and corrected in writing?
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That bomb is still a deterrent.
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My Dad served during the "occupation" and I was in my forties before I heard him solemnly talk about the horrors of the aftermath he witnessed as a teen aged soldier. His just may have been one of those lives of "youngsters" that President Truman saved though.
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