Re: Little Boy and Fat Man


"Just Judy" <Just_Joody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:27:20 -0400, trudogg <trudogg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The wallop that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and August
9th, 1945, ended the war that was already about to end and left a
metallic taste in everybody's mouth. These unnecessary and militarily
useless acts, falsely postulating it would end the war sooner, has
caused the United States a legacy of shame.

I disagree with this legacy. The only legacy was that it
taught humanity that, at all costs, nuclear war was to be avoided. On
9-11, I'd have preferred to deliver a reminder to the world, but the
world's memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki prevented such a disaster.

I had several conversations with my Japanese friends on the
subject of the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. His mother lived near
Nagasaki and had many stories to tell. My friends' overwhelming
response to that attack was shame.

The USA suffered no such legacy of shame.
--
Judy~

Oh, I think we have reason for shame, Judy. In the words of Dwight David
Eisenhower:

"In 1945 ... , Secretary of War Stimson visited my headquarters in
Germany, [and] informed me that our government was preparing to drop an
atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number
of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act.... During his
recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of
depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of
my belief that Japan was already defeated and that


dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and second because I
thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a
weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to
save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment,
seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.' The Secretary
was deeply perturbed by my attitude, almost angrily refuting the reasons I
gave for my quick conclusions."

Source: The White House Years: Mandate for Change: 1953-1956: A
Personal Account (New York: Doubleday, 1963), pp. 312-313.

Found at:
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/pre-cold-war/hiroshima-nagasaki/opinion-eisenhower-bomb.htm






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