| Subject: Re: Why World War II ended with Mushroom Clouds - 65 years ago, August 6 and 9, 1945: Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| From: Hiroshima Facts |
| Date: 08/08/2010, 08:19 |
| Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.alien.research,alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic,alt.conspiracy |
On Aug 7, 4:33 pm, harry k <turnkey4...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Aug 7, 6:02 am, Hiroshima Facts <hiroshima_fa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Aug 6, 1:26 am, "Sir Arthur C.B.E. Wholeflaffers A.S.A."
<scie...@zzz.com> wrote:
Truman himself, however, hypocritically declared at the time that the
purpose of the two nuclear bombardments had been “to bring the boys
home,” that is, to quickly finish the war without any further major
loss of life on the American side. This explanation was uncritically
broadcast in the American media and it developed into a myth eagerly
propagated by the majority of historians and media in the USA and
throughout the “Western” world. That myth, which, incidentally, also
serves to justify potential future nuclear strikes on targets such as
Iran and North Korea, is still very much alive - just check your
mainstream newspaper on August 6 and 9!
That is hardly a myth. And it was hardly hypocritical.
The invasion of Japan was projected to cost up to a million American
lives, and countless more injured.
The prospect of this invasion worried Truman greatly. That is why he
was still eager for the Soviets to help fight Japan despite the fact
that they were showing themselves to be troublemakers.
When Japan finally started offering to surrender, Truman was greatly
relieved.
I think you are distortin history a bit. The Soviets entered the war
against Japan for the sole purpose of a land grab. Noone of the
Allies wanted them in there. They knew Japan was beat it was only a
question of time once we had the bomb.
It is true that having the Soviets involved had huge negatives, and
they would have been very pleased to keep the Soviets out.
But they did not know for sure that the bombs (or anything else for
that matter) would make Japan surrender. It still may have came down
to the invasion for all they knew, and if we did invade, not having
help from the Soviets would have made an already high cost in American
lives even higher. It was sort of a matter of deciding which of two
unpalatable alternatives was a lesser evil.
They certainly hoped that they could shock Japan into surrender before
the Soviets entered the Pacific war -- that way they could avoid both
the invasion and Soviet involvement. But they were also continuing to
press the Soviets to enter the war, just in case they couldn't shock
Japan into surrender, and invasion was unavoidable.