att Ward Wilson AUGUST 6, AND 9TH 1945

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Wilson

Dear Mr. Wilson,

 

RE: Your article    https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-bomb-didn-t-beat-japan-stalin-did

August 6, 1945, I was not born yet (1954,) and neither were you (1956.)

I see your position on this - and all the politics of different countries speaking different languages

with their own ideas of what winning and losing is.

America was dragged into both the war with German and with Japan, as far as I've read.

My thought, and it's simply my own theory based on information and belief, is that

Japan was acting like Donald Trump - their own idea of supremacy and even if a nightmare bomb

had been dropped on them, they needed time to see if they had a solution.  Their idea of world supremacy

was as strong as Hitler's.

I detest nuclear weapons as much as you do.  America had been bullied, Hawaii bombed and burned,

soldiers dying in Europe.  We had had enough. 

Look at Putin still aggressive with economic sanctions, blunder after blunder...there is but once difference:

Putin has the bomb as well.  Any sane dictator (an oxymoron, for sure) would back off.

Yet it is the threat that Russia would also get pummeled by a nuclear disaster that seems to be

keeping Putin at bay...somewhat...and Kim Jong Trump as well.

To imply that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, ho hum, afterthoughts, we were going to surrender anyway,

is ludicrous.

Surrender Dorothy, indeed.

 

AUGUST 6, AND 9TH

One might argue that the delay is perfectly logical. Perhaps they only came to realize the importance of the bombing slowly. Perhaps they didn’t know it was a nuclear weapon and when they did realize it and understood the terrible effects such a weapon could have, they naturally concluded they had to surrender. Unfortunately, this explanation doesn’t square with the evidence.

First, Hiroshima’s governor reported to Tokyo on the very day Hiroshima was bombed that about a third of the population had been killed in the attack and that two thirds of the city had been destroyed. This information didn’t change over the next several days. So the outcome — the end result of the bombing — was clear from the beginning. Japan’s leaders knew roughly the outcome of the attack on the first day, yet they still did not act.      https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-bomb-didn-t-beat-japan-stalin-did

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Just my thoughts, what do I know?

Joe Viglione