Being someone old enough to remember those years with great clarity, I can say that this BS screed is pure fabrication!
There was uniform joy and celebration throughout the former country known as "Amerca" at the thought/knowledge that a couple hundred thousands of those slant-eyed jap scum were incinerated.
There was absolutely no evidence that surrender was even a remote possibility prior to these bomb attacks.
Based on the American casualty rates on Iwo and Okinawa, the invasion of the nip homeland would have resulted in an additional 1/2 million American casualties.
Only when the communist takeover of the American press a couple years later did this BS raise it filthy head...
Really. Not the biggest fan of Truman, but you could have counted at the time the people opposed to Fat Man and Little Boy on one hand.
Even the pro-Soviet Progressives didn't use Hiroshima and Nagasaki to attack Truman.
Truman's problem was more the economy and some scandals. Also he was seen as a petty little man after the larger than life Roosevelt.
Good post Supe. I especially liked one the lines from Harry T’s speech right after the first bomb: “If they do not now accept our terms, they can expect a rain of ruin from the air the likes never seen on Earth”. ‘Rain of Ruin’? Outstanding wording!! But as you know the sneaky Japs still wouldn’t uncle, so Harry fed ‘em another big one! KA-BOOM! There we go! That did the trick!
Yes this is pure BS. Truman nuking the Japanese was extremely popular at the time.
It was only years later when revisionist history types questioned the use of the atomic bomb.
I couldn’t believe what I read here. An America weary of war opposed a war mongering President Truman’s use of the atomic bomb.b?
I challenge anyone to find any news or opinion pieces from the time which said anything along these lines.