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Some people will be bitching about you making this. I think it's an important piece of our history and shouldn't be omitted on the grounds that it wasn't America's or her Allies' finest hour. It happened and it'd be more insulting to those who died to gloss over their deaths and not draw this.
As ever, brilliant work on a topic that should never be forgotten.
1)
It was Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on December, 1941
that got the United States into WW2.
2)
--Also, a few days before the attack the U.S. government
was interested in negotiating some things that cause
them to ban some resource materials to Japan.
Some politicians in Japan thought this was a good sign.
Wanted to radio the Japanese fleet to cancel the planned upcoming attack.
However, Minister Tojo gave a flat "No" saying if the USA came to them before the fleet left he would agree with this. He said it was too late.
3)
The only option was the USA, Australia & Great Britain to invade Japan.
One over 1 million more allied lives would have been killed. And many more Japanese lives (military & civilian) would have been killed. Some experts up to over 10 to over 15 million Japanese lives would have been killed.
4)
Also, at the time the USA and UK did not know the situation in the Japanese government at the time. Some in the government wanted to surrender before the atomic bombings. The hard nose war hogs were against surrendering.
After, the first bombing a majority still was not interested in surrendering. Before the 2nd atomic bombing Emperor Hirohito wanted to end the war. He didn't want his people to suffer any more.
even then the military and war fraction did not want to surrender.
After, the 2nd bombing the war fraction decided they had enough.
The US threaten to drop more atomic bombs. Even though USA had none available at the time.These would have arrived in about two weeks from Los Alamos.
Hideki Tōjō was arrested, tried and hanged for war crimes. Most of these crimes were against other Asian nations, mostly China and yet the crime he was most remembered for was planning an attack on US Naval base Pearl Harbor resulting in the deaths of a little over 2,400 deaths, under 70 of those were civilians.
75,000 died in the Nagasaki blast alone. Over 73,000 civilian men women and children. Compared to 9/11 which shocked the world (under 3,000 for all four hi-jackings) or the Bombing of Dresden which took 20,000 lives over a 2 day period, the attack on Nagasaki is second only to Hiroshima. All this is before we take into account the knock-on effects of radiation on Japanese families. Deformed and stillborn babies, cancer victims, flat out radiation sickness . . . Enola Gay and Bockscar delivered two unprecedented single blows against a nation's civilian population even by today's standards.
If America, Australia, Britain and France had stepped up their conventional assault on Japan instead more Japanese soldiers would have died, but a great deal fewer civilian lives would have been claimed.
considered "virgin targets".
"Vigin Targets" were industrial and military cities that had not been bombed earlier in the war.
Hiroshima was such a military target.
The USA wanted such targets to demonstrate what they had available as a weapon.
Nagasaki from what I recall was not the original target for the second bombing. From what I know the city the B-29 "Bockscar" was to drop was under heavy cloud cover. So it was cancel and the plane and crew had secondary targets in the plans..If they could not get these secondary targets they were to fly back to base, and they had to drop the "Fat Man" bomb in the ocean somewhere miles off of Japan before returning to base...There was a break in the clouds at the secondary target of Nagasaki and it ended up there.
Nuclear Deterrence is based on fear, but countries that hold nuclear weapons must share that fear, because the potential to spread radiation around the entire world still exists.
I hope we are wise enough now to stick to our conventional weapons forever..
Agreed 100%: a brilliant work on a topic that should never be forgotten.