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This is an image of the explosion/before and after photo of hiroshima Take into consideration that 95% of the people who perished in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombingswere civilians |
Hiroshima- August 6, 1945
Nickname: "Little Boy"
Damage: Four square miles
Deaths: Estimate range- 70,000 to 100,000
Nagasaki- August 9, 1945
Nickname: "Fat Man"
Damage: Two square miles
Deaths: Estimate range- 40,000
Truman stated that he based his decision to use the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a way to save American lives, and to make up for the amount of casualties that were lost upon this war with Japan, when in reality Japan had lost five men for every single man the US had lost.
Truman stated that he based his decision to use the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a way to save American lives, and to make up for the amount of casualties that were lost upon this war with Japan, when in reality Japan had lost five men for every single man the US had lost.
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| This is an image of the casualties in the war against Japan during WWII |
~~~ELLIS ZACHARIAS
(Deputy Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence)
"What prevented them from suing for peace or from bringing their plot into the open was their uncertainty on two scores. First, they wanted to know the meaning of unconditional surrender and the fate we planned for Japan after defeat. Second, they tried to obtain from us assurances that the Emperor could remain on the throne after surrender." (Ellis Zacharias, Eighteen Words That Bagged Japan, Saturday Evening Post, 11/17/45, pg. 17.)
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| This is an image of burned bodies after the dropping of the atomic bombs When all was said and done the Japanese agreed on a conditional surrender, and was able to obtain their Emperor, Hirohito. So my question is, why didn't Truman give in from the beginning without the cost of murder? Truman wanted revenge, even with the cost of murder. ~~~WILLIAM LEAHY (Truman's chief of staff) |
"My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages"
"I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children."
~~~ELLIS ZACHARIAS
(Deputy Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence)
"I submit that it was the wrong decision. It was wrong on strategic grounds. And it was wrong on humanitarian grounds."(Ellis Zacharias, How We Bungled the Japanese Surrender, Look, 6/6/50, pg. 19-21.)
Truman wasn't trying to save American lives, Truman was looking for pay back. What image of the United States are we trying to portray if we stoop down to their level, if not worse, for revenge.
Hiroshima | Nagasaki | |
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Pre-raid population | 255,000 | 195,000 |
Dead | 66,000 | 39,000 |
Injured | 69,000 | 25,000 |
Total Casualties | 135,000 | 64,000 |
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| This is an image of a man who suffered from thermal heat from the explosion of the atomic bombs |
~ Thermal heat caused burns and loss of eyesight
Country | Military casualties | Civilian casualties |
USA | 295.000 | --- |
Japan | 1.700.000 | 360.000 |
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| This is an image of both the atomic bombs- "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" |
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Cause of Death | Percent of Total | ||
Burns | 60% | ||
Falling debris | 30 | ||
Other | 10 | ||
Nagasaki | |
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Cause of Death | Percent of Total |
Burns | 95% |
Falling debris | 9 |
Flying glass | 7 |
Other | 7 |
~~~BRIGADIER GENERAL CARTER CLARKE
(The military intelligence officer in charge of preparing intercepted Japanese cables - the MAGIC summaries - for Truman and his advisors)
"...when we didn't need to do it, and we knew we didn't need to do it, and they knew that we knew we didn't need to do it, we used them as an experiment for two atomic bombs."(Quoted in Gar Alperovitz, The Decision To Use the Atomic Bomb, pg. 359.)
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Hiroshima- "Little Boy" |
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Nagasaki- "Fat Man" |
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| This is an image of a man who suffered thermal burns from the explosion of the atomic bombs ~ Thermal burns ranged from 3.5 kilometers from ground zero |
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| This is an image of a ladder and a mans shadow from being burn and desinigrated so quickly |
~ Thermal rays range from 1 kilometer from ground zero (disintegrated/died)
~~~GAR ALPEROVITZ
(A historian)
"In April we knew they were beginning to try to surrender. They were already defeated in every sense. We were bombing their cities without any opposition. The Japanese were making airplane gasoline out of acorns. So we knew that they were on their last legs"
This is an other example of why the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were completely unnecessary.
This is an image of a chart comparing the effects of the Nagasaki bo
This is an other example of why the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were completely unnecessary.
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| This is an image of a chart comparing the effects of the Nagasaki bo |
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| This is an image of a chart between the number of casualties and distance from the hypocenter |
~~~Dwight Eisenhower
(Who succeeded Truman as president)
"The Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing," (1963 interview with Newsweek.)
The man who followed Truman as president, among many others, knew that what was done was immoral.
This is an image of an elder man who was
burned as a child due to the dropping of
the atomic bombs
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| This is an image of a damaged house after the dropping of the atomic bomb |
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| This is an image of a collapsed building (which in some cases civilians would actually be trapped under) ~ Houses/Building collapsed ranging from 2.3 kilometers from ground zero (many people trapped underneath)  This is the aircraft ENOLA GAY- "Little Boy" that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima |
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| This is an image of a woman with radiation poisoning |
~ Radiation ranging from 500 meters from ground zero (fatal)
