Let's not forget the documentation, where old men, women and children were being trained to attack the invading forces using farm tools and sharpened bamboo, in suicide attacks.Done.
No one from the Strategic Bombing Survey spoke up to oppose the A-bombs before they were used.
Ike's opposition was feeble to the point of insignificance.
Ike only expressed his opposition to a single person (Stimson).
When Stimson reacted by calling him an idiot, Ike decided to keep quiet and not tell anyone else.
Even if Ike had managed to somehow be convincing, he was too late anyway. Stimson had sent the final orders to drop the A-bombs out to the military and then departed the Potsdam conference on July 25. When Ike voiced his opposition in Frankfort on July 27 it was just hours before Stimson departed Europe for home. Truman was still at sea aboard the Augusta when Hiroshima was bombed, and had not been in the same room with Stimson since July 25.
Leahy somehow completely forgot to speak up and oppose the use of the A-bombs during the war when they were actually being used.
MacArthur somehow completely forgot to speak up and oppose the use of the A-bombs during the war when they were actually being used.
History shows that he was completely wrong. Japan had no interest in surrendering to us for as long as they had hope that their Soviet gambit would succeed.
He made public statements about the A-bombs before they were dropped when they were still the most closely-guarded secret in US history? And referred to them in the past tense?
No. LeMay made no such statements before the A-bombs were dropped.
Nitze somehow completely forgot to speak up and oppose the use of the A-bombs during the war when they were actually being used.
King somehow completely forgot to speak up and oppose the use of the A-bombs during the war when they were actually being used.
Nimitz somehow completely forgot to speak up and oppose the use of the A-bombs during the war when they were actually being used.
And someone should have helped the poor guy out with a calendar. Japan offered to surrender on August 10. The A-bombs were dropped on August 6 and August 9.
They weren't.
Hiroshima was a huge military center with tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers awaiting deployment to resist our invasion. It was also the military headquarters in charge of repelling that invasion.
Kokura Arsenal was a massive (4100 feet by 2000 feet) arms production complex.
That's exactly what they did do. Hiroshima was a large military port. Kokura Arsenal was a major arms manufacturing complex. And we dropped leaflets warning people to leave.
Alternatives to the A-bomb???
We could have fought the war without using them. Just as we could have fought the war without using tanks or guns or bullets.
Who would be dumb enough to fight a war without using bullets?
Hoover somehow completely forgot to speak up and oppose the use of the A-bombs during the war when they were actually being used.
And history shows that Japan refused to surrender until August 10, by which time both A-bombs had already been dropped.
Because Japan was still refusing to surrender, and the A-bombs reduced Japan's ability to resist our invasion.
False premise. Japan was still refusing to surrender when the A-bombs were dropped.
False premise. Aside from Ike's incredibly feeble objections, no military or political figures were opposing the use of the A-bombs.
That goofy nonsense about annihilating the species should be enough to dismiss the ravings of this lunatic.
But anyway, no. Oddly enough, we actually wanted to make Japan surrender.
And no military leader whatsoever advised Truman that there was no military need for using the A-bombs.
That problem was easily solved. They simply reserved the A-bomb targets from being attacked conventionally.
Stimson was being diplomatic. He was asked a stupid question.
An effort to achieve surrender in order to avoid using the A-bombs???
Surrender was the entire goal. The A-bombs were dropped in furtherance of that goal.
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