Posted on 05/06/2004 7:07:24 PM PDT by walford
"An investigation, based on newly released documents, into President Truman's controversial decision to drop the A-bomb. Concludes that the real reason the U.S. dropped the bomb was to intimidate the Soviet Union."
Several 'experts' explained that dropping the A-bombs on Japan were unnecessary [there were no dissenting points of view aired]. The announcer -- bearing an English accent -- explained that the reasons that Truman decided to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki were:
1. A raving desire for revenge on the part of the American people. 2. To use the opportunity to 'experiment' the new weapon on an expendable population. 3. To demonstrate to the USSR that America is not to be messed with. 4. The bombs were unnecessary, because the Japanese were about to surrender anyway.
If this history professor had been in Harry Truman's place, playing for the same stakes, without benefit of hindsight, I wonder what his decision would have been.
And, had his decision been not to use the bombs, he would have abrogated his responsibility to the nation and its armed forces -- causing even more needless death and suffering on both sides (not that he had any responsibility whatsoever for the Japanese).
Academic jerkism.
I was in the Boston area (mid-1990s) when MIT finally tore down the temporary Building 17 that was errected to house the
radar development during WWII.
One of the sayings repeated by the people that didn't want to work on "the bomb" and instead contributed to the radar
project was the "Radar won the war. The atomic bomb ended it."
FWIW
Even if your father was not killed in the line of duty, even if he was "safe" at sea, any delay of his return to America would have changed the circumstance of your conception. He may have sired an offspring but it wouldn't have the same exact genetic code that you posses.
Between the biased historical reports and the tin foil, paranormal BS, I don't see why people think that these channels are "better television" or educational.
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