via Zest Alternative, a story from the New Scientist on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki . Based on new research by two historians – Peter Kuznick & Mark Selden – the article is a chilling read.
New studies of the US, Japanese and Soviet diplomatic archives suggest that Truman’s main motive was to limit Soviet expansion in Asia, Kuznick claims. Japan surrendered because the Soviet Union began an invasion a few days after the Hiroshima bombing, not because of the atomic bombs themselves, he says.
According to an account by Walter Brown, assistant to then-US secretary of state James Byrnes, Truman agreed at a meeting three days before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima that Japan was “looking for peace”. Truman was told by his army generals, Douglas Macarthur and Dwight Eisenhower, and his naval chief of staff, William Leahy, that there was no military need to use the bomb.
“Impressing Russia was more important than ending the war in Japan,” says Selden. Truman was also worried that he would be accused of wasting money on the Manhattan Project to build the first nuclear bombs, if the bomb was not used, he adds.
read the rest here.
Also if you can lay your hands on this it is worth a read.
Well, this might be another of those ‘conspiracy’ theories, or may be its just ture. But will anything come out of this? I dont think so. Will anybody/’any’ country be apologetic for this? No way…
of course not. but it may atleast get them down from their moral high horse 🙂
when u sit so high up like a tennis match refree to blow out cities morality is not a necessity. morality and order is only necessary for the ones who r battling below u on the tennis court hitting the same ball at eachother.