The bomb that created a crater on the former military airfield taxiway when it exploded underground on Oct. 2 was a delayed detonation bomb dropped by U.S. forces, according to the Defense Ministry. In addition, many other similar cases previously confirmed in Japan also involved bombs fitted ...
The pro-bomb camp generally argues that the attacks were needed to shock an intransigent Japan into accepting surrender. In doing so, the A-bombs prevented the need for a land invasion of the Japanese home islands, an operation reasonably projected to cost millions of Japanese and American lives...
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It was clear that Japan was searching for a way to somehow end the war. An illuminating way to gain perspective on the decision to use the atomic bomb is to go back to April 12, 1945, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt died and a new president, Harry S. Truman, took office. At...
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From Fukouka the POWs traveled to the ruins of Nagasaki, where they met Weller, who interviewed them extensively before they departed Japan. In a list of “characteristic statements from those who saw the atomic bomb explode thirty miles away in Nagasaki,” Weller quoted Theodore: “The best ...
对于全人类来说,那场灾难,让长崎无辜的后代遭受到身体的残缺,让我们子孙的心里蒙上了阴影 Nagasaki explodes the atomic bomb lets Japan be defeated in the war, but US has succeeded? Regarding the universe, that disaster, lets the Nagasaki innocent descendants be exposed bodily incomplete, let our ...
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