When you leave out Japan had been trying to surrender for a year you are posting propaganda, not facts.
We were making glow in the dark watches, dinnerware, statues out of uranium products into the 1960's.
Yet we are supposed to believe illiterate fishermen grasped the concept immediately?
WHEN WE DIDN'T?
When their news didn't even report it?
Historians who refuse to look at the other sides history of the same event are merely propagandists.
Truman was in the KKK. He only quit because they wouldn't allow Catholics, he thought Catholics hated minorities on the same level the klan did. Japanese were subhuman to him.
So why Nagasaki?
We dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki just to make a movie!
Major Charles Sweeney noticed a slight ongoing fuel leak on the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar. He could not call off the mission as time was of the essence.
He had to drop the Fat Man on Kokura because the cameras had failed at Hiroshima. Truman had been told 2 weeks earlier from Stalin that the Emperor was trying to surrender, though Stalin didn't tell Truman he had actually been trying to surrender for a year. At any moment Japan might surrender and ruin our chance to get footage of the blast.
Truman knew he had to justify the incredible cost of our atomic program and wanted a clean image he could use. We actually did have footage of a test done two weeks before, but that footage was too sterile. Film of Japan being hit was to be used to silence those who questioned the program.
Of all the wars that Democrats had begun or inherited in the 20th Century, the war in the Pacific was the only one it ever won.
Major Sweeney had to understand that with a fuel leak he might not come back. No matter, two planes were meeting him to film and record the blast.
The plane reached Kokura but the city was obscured by clouds and smoke, as the nearby city of Yawata had been firebombed on the previous day.
Everything had happened so fast missions couldn't be called off. It was impossible to film Kokura. The plane headed towards the nearby Christian city of Nagasaki.
Nagasaki was the Christian capital of Japan. From the 16th through the 19th Centuries traders coming to the port made the city the only one in Japan with direct outside contact.
The Japanese did not trust the Christians, and would not allow them in the military.
Bockscar arrived over Nagasaki but the other two planes were lost in the smoke from Yawata. He flew round and round for a half hour using up precious fuel when one of the planes arrived and luckily had both cameras and measuring instruments onboard. The plane found an opening in the clouds and dropped the bomb.
A firebombing of the cities hospital a few weeks earlier had convinced the townspeople to move the children out of the city. 80,000 people were vaporized within seconds.
A lot of kids became orphans immediately. Tens of thousands more would die of radiative effects over the days and years. Now I know what you're thinking. Did we get the film?
YES! The greatest military success the Democrats ever had in the 20th Century was preserved on film. Sweeney's plane made it back as well.
Oddly, the film is rarely shown ( usually the test footage is shown) and Hiroshima takes center stage in news accounts.
Also oddly, the record for number of people killed to make a movie has never been acknowledged.
There's more:
The man who said we saved a million lives made up the number. The true number has been revealed:
MYTH :
Dropping the Bomb Saved a Million American Lives
Truman started out saying that "thousands and thousands" of American lives were saved by using the atom bomb. Later, in his memoir, he bumped it up to 500,000. And later still, he topped it off to a cool million.
But what would the actual death toll have been had the U.S. made a land invasion?
According to Stanford historian Barton Bernstein's research of declassified documents, the worst-case scenario proposed by military officials was 46,000 deaths for U.S. forces if they invaded both Kyushu and Honshu islands.
50,000 lives is nothing to sneeze at, but it's clear that the exponential growth in death toll is a belated justification for using the bomb. And when you consider the number of American casualties in both the Pacific and European theaters totaled 405,000, the number seems all the more inflated.
As reported in the Los Angeles Times in 2005:
"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
in a 1947 Harper's magazine essay he had ghostwritten for Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson."
In a cable intercepted on July 12, 1945, Hirohito revealed that he was ready to end the war on the condition that the monarchy be granted immunity from war crimes -- conditions which the U.S. only accepted after dropping two atomic bombs on the country.
There is only one question to ask the Democratic Party deniers on the atomic bombs.
They insist the bombs changed Japan's thinking and ended the war. OK. The one demand they had for one year before the bombs were dropped was that they keep their Emperor. OSS, our World War 2 Intel group had intercepted Japanese communications and knew they were trying to surrender. Stalin told us they wanted to end the war 2 weeks before Hiroshima and all they wanted was to keep their Emperor.
The other reason for deploying the bomb was the knowledge that the Kyushu invasion was off the table. In late June, following the end of the Okinawa campaign in which the US Navy had suffered their worst losses other than the Guadalcanal campaign, Admiral Nimitz, the US Pacific Theater Commander, wrote a letter to the Joint Chiefs in which he stated that the Navy could no longer support an invasion of Japan because they could not sustain the expected losses (the Japanese had over 5,000 kamikazes ready to deploy; they had only used 1,500, of which the majority were shot down, to bloody the Navy's nose at Okinawa). I know my father, who had survived the sinking of one of the radar picket destroyers, sat down on the afternoon of my birthday in 1945, and wrote me a letter to be delivered in the event of his death, which he expected, having just that morning received new orders to another radar picket destroyer for the invasion, in which he told me who he was, why he'd become my father in the middle of a world war, and what he hoped for me in the future. I found that letter in a box after he died in 1988.
I once interviewed Colonel William Barber (MOH for Chosin) who in 1945 was the most junior company commander in the Sixth Marine Division, having achieved that promotion through attrition of his seniors at Iwo Jima. He told me that in September, after the surrender, the officers of the Sixth Marines visited the beach they had been scheduled to hit, and were able to view the defenses and speak to the officers who would have opposed them. According to him, it was the unanimous opinion after doing that, that the division would never have gotten off the beach, and that there would have been no way to organize an evacuation.
These facts were known by Truman and the others. Rather than risk the Russians successfully invading Hokkaido and taking the country from the undefended north, they deployed the bomb - which actually had no effect on the Japanese, since they had already lost 3X the A-bomb losses in the fire raids by the B-29s. The Japanese surrendered to us to avoid that fate, and told us that of course it was the bombs. Which allowed them to get off for all their war crimes, since they were the war's Big Victim of the Bombs, and allowed us to base the foreign policy of the country on bullshit for the past 78 years.
When you leave out Japan had been trying to surrender for a year you are posting propaganda, not facts.
We were making glow in the dark watches, dinnerware, statues out of uranium products into the 1960's.
Yet we are supposed to believe illiterate fishermen grasped the concept immediately?
WHEN WE DIDN'T?
When their news didn't even report it?
Historians who refuse to look at the other sides history of the same event are merely propagandists.
Truman was in the KKK. He only quit because they wouldn't allow Catholics, he thought Catholics hated minorities on the same level the klan did. Japanese were subhuman to him.
So why Nagasaki?
We dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki just to make a movie!
Major Charles Sweeney noticed a slight ongoing fuel leak on the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar. He could not call off the mission as time was of the essence.
He had to drop the Fat Man on Kokura because the cameras had failed at Hiroshima. Truman had been told 2 weeks earlier from Stalin that the Emperor was trying to surrender, though Stalin didn't tell Truman he had actually been trying to surrender for a year. At any moment Japan might surrender and ruin our chance to get footage of the blast.
Truman knew he had to justify the incredible cost of our atomic program and wanted a clean image he could use. We actually did have footage of a test done two weeks before, but that footage was too sterile. Film of Japan being hit was to be used to silence those who questioned the program.
Of all the wars that Democrats had begun or inherited in the 20th Century, the war in the Pacific was the only one it ever won.
Major Sweeney had to understand that with a fuel leak he might not come back. No matter, two planes were meeting him to film and record the blast.
The plane reached Kokura but the city was obscured by clouds and smoke, as the nearby city of Yawata had been firebombed on the previous day.
Everything had happened so fast missions couldn't be called off. It was impossible to film Kokura. The plane headed towards the nearby Christian city of Nagasaki.
Nagasaki was the Christian capital of Japan. From the 16th through the 19th Centuries traders coming to the port made the city the only one in Japan with direct outside contact.
The Japanese did not trust the Christians, and would not allow them in the military.
Bockscar arrived over Nagasaki but the other two planes were lost in the smoke from Yawata. He flew round and round for a half hour using up precious fuel when one of the planes arrived and luckily had both cameras and measuring instruments onboard. The plane found an opening in the clouds and dropped the bomb.
A firebombing of the cities hospital a few weeks earlier had convinced the townspeople to move the children out of the city. 80,000 people were vaporized within seconds.
A lot of kids became orphans immediately. Tens of thousands more would die of radiative effects over the days and years. Now I know what you're thinking. Did we get the film?
YES! The greatest military success the Democrats ever had in the 20th Century was preserved on film. Sweeney's plane made it back as well.
Oddly, the film is rarely shown ( usually the test footage is shown) and Hiroshima takes center stage in news accounts.
Also oddly, the record for number of people killed to make a movie has never been acknowledged.
There's more:
The man who said we saved a million lives made up the number. The true number has been revealed:
MYTH :
Dropping the Bomb Saved a Million American Lives
Truman started out saying that "thousands and thousands" of American lives were saved by using the atom bomb. Later, in his memoir, he bumped it up to 500,000. And later still, he topped it off to a cool million.
But what would the actual death toll have been had the U.S. made a land invasion?
According to Stanford historian Barton Bernstein's research of declassified documents, the worst-case scenario proposed by military officials was 46,000 deaths for U.S. forces if they invaded both Kyushu and Honshu islands.
50,000 lives is nothing to sneeze at, but it's clear that the exponential growth in death toll is a belated justification for using the bomb. And when you consider the number of American casualties in both the Pacific and European theaters totaled 405,000, the number seems all the more inflated.
As reported in the Los Angeles Times in 2005:
"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
in a 1947 Harper's magazine essay he had ghostwritten for Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson."
In a cable intercepted on July 12, 1945, Hirohito revealed that he was ready to end the war on the condition that the monarchy be granted immunity from war crimes -- conditions which the U.S. only accepted after dropping two atomic bombs on the country.
There is only one question to ask the Democratic Party deniers on the atomic bombs.
They insist the bombs changed Japan's thinking and ended the war. OK. The one demand they had for one year before the bombs were dropped was that they keep their Emperor. OSS, our World War 2 Intel group had intercepted Japanese communications and knew they were trying to surrender. Stalin told us they wanted to end the war 2 weeks before Hiroshima and all they wanted was to keep their Emperor.
So we dropped two atomic bombs on civilians.
Then Truman said they could keep their Emperor.
The other reason for deploying the bomb was the knowledge that the Kyushu invasion was off the table. In late June, following the end of the Okinawa campaign in which the US Navy had suffered their worst losses other than the Guadalcanal campaign, Admiral Nimitz, the US Pacific Theater Commander, wrote a letter to the Joint Chiefs in which he stated that the Navy could no longer support an invasion of Japan because they could not sustain the expected losses (the Japanese had over 5,000 kamikazes ready to deploy; they had only used 1,500, of which the majority were shot down, to bloody the Navy's nose at Okinawa). I know my father, who had survived the sinking of one of the radar picket destroyers, sat down on the afternoon of my birthday in 1945, and wrote me a letter to be delivered in the event of his death, which he expected, having just that morning received new orders to another radar picket destroyer for the invasion, in which he told me who he was, why he'd become my father in the middle of a world war, and what he hoped for me in the future. I found that letter in a box after he died in 1988.
I once interviewed Colonel William Barber (MOH for Chosin) who in 1945 was the most junior company commander in the Sixth Marine Division, having achieved that promotion through attrition of his seniors at Iwo Jima. He told me that in September, after the surrender, the officers of the Sixth Marines visited the beach they had been scheduled to hit, and were able to view the defenses and speak to the officers who would have opposed them. According to him, it was the unanimous opinion after doing that, that the division would never have gotten off the beach, and that there would have been no way to organize an evacuation.
These facts were known by Truman and the others. Rather than risk the Russians successfully invading Hokkaido and taking the country from the undefended north, they deployed the bomb - which actually had no effect on the Japanese, since they had already lost 3X the A-bomb losses in the fire raids by the B-29s. The Japanese surrendered to us to avoid that fate, and told us that of course it was the bombs. Which allowed them to get off for all their war crimes, since they were the war's Big Victim of the Bombs, and allowed us to base the foreign policy of the country on bullshit for the past 78 years.
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