Hiroshima, Nagasaki, And The Great Historic Lie - zengardner.com
Excerpt from this article:
"It is perceived wisdom throughout the Western world – particularly
America – that the dropping of two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki was “necessary” to end the war with Japan...Truman knew weeks before the Potsdam
Conference, which began in July, 1945, that the Japanese were making
overtures to surrender, the only condition being the retention of the
Emperor. But Truman was determined to test the new bombs. In the words
of General Douglas McArthur: ”The war might have ended weeks earlier, he
said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the
retention of the institution of the emperor.”...In reality, most of the military top brass
were disgusted at the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki and
understood completely that it served no military purpose whatsoever."
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Recommended reading (my post):
Japan Marks 68th Anniversary Of U.S. Atomic Bombing
