Re: Hiroshima 60
and here we have other guys who get it also…
–“Americans were also told that use of the bombs “led to the immediate surrender of Japan and made unnecessary the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands.” But it’s not that straightforward.”
–“it was the Soviet Union’s entry into the Pacific war on Aug. 8, two days after the Hiroshima bombing, that provided the final “shock” that led to Japan’s capitulation.”
–“The Enola Gay exhibit also repeated such outright lies as the assertion that “special leaflets were dropped on Japanese cities” warning civilians to evacuate. The fact is that atomic bomb warning leaflets were dropped on Japanese cities, but only after Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been destroyed.”
–“The hard truth is that the atomic bombings were unnecessary. A million lives were not saved. Indeed, McGeorge Bundy, the man who first popularized this figure, later confessed that he had pulled it out of thin air in order to justify the bombings”
–"The bomb was dropped, as J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project, said in November 1945, on “an essentially defeated enemy.”
read in full here…
The myths of Hiroshima
LA Times, 5 August 2005
By Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin