Most people in this country "think" that the nuclear bombings of Japan was justified. Now I am not going to say the Tokyo government was "goody-goody". They were not. And I accept that the Japanese goverment of those days started the war against China in 1937 criminally. And, yes, they committed mass killings [Nazis I would have fear them more, however!]. But let us not fool ourselves. Japanese military machine was financed from the US in the thirties by selling them scrap metals. And most Yanks paid almost no attention to Nankin rape of 1937. Neither the British. We thought that was "Asians' business.
And Truman had other reasons to bomb the hell the Japanese: blame scientists, Fermi and Oppenheimer who created the bomb and wished to be drop on Japan. And wanted to impress Stalin and claim hegemony of USA on the world. So it was not just "save some lives and stop the war". And dropping those things on women and children smack for me MURDER. What do you say?
2007-10-18
13:33:31
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