'Little Boy' Reminds the World of Unnecessary Atrocities

Yes humanity has no need or use for these types of weapons either nuclear or hydrogen in any form or type of as a weapon except to kill other human beings. Making it only sensible to disassemble those weapons already made and making them harmless for future generations. While the technology from the creation of the atom bomb has developed for other less deadly uses it does have benefit humanity like medical and energy among other uses.

While Hiroshima and the event in Nagasaki that followed are truly sad and need to be reminders of our human history of war - We as citizen of humanity should also be thankful that these weapons have not been used since this time in any form outside of testing.

A friend of mine, head of the history dept at Berkeley High, worked with MLK in the Civil Rights movement, told me that he would have dropped the bomb. 

His reasoning and mine coincide.

Interesting how many lives it actually saved. Interesting how a second bomb had to be dropped before the unconditional surrender was declared by the Japanese.

The atrocities of the Japanese include everything that happened in Korea, Manchuria, the rest of China, and the Philippines, with millions killed.The bomb was in response to that and not Pearl Harbor.

25,000 US marines were killed in one day in the fighting in Okinawa, and that was seen as just what the invasion of the mainland would bring about as a daily toll, going on for months.

And the elite of the Japanese wanted to surrender but protect the emperor from prosecution, even though he was totally involved with the war effort.

Interesting as well that many who condemn this action never condemn any of the iconic figures of the pantheon of Marxist-Leninist criminality with its 100 million dead.

The bombing of Dresden did nothing to shorten the war, but the atomic bombing of Japan ended the war and quickly, saving millions of American, British, Russian, and even Japanese from dying of the sick warrior culture that would not permit surrender.

This attempt to make us feel guilty or ashamed simply does not work. It has actually come to be boring to me over the decades of constant refrain.

The Japanese, to this day, do not teach their school children what the Japanese did in WWII. And, we did not prosecute all involved in the atrocities.

Most conspicuously, the emperor was never put on trial, though he was as guilty as anyone in the Japanese high command.

THE HUFFINGTON POST??

That source of objectivity? No one knew why the Japanese had not already surrendered and all that the Allies could think was that this was part of the Japanese warrior code, and that they, in fact, would not surrender, just as their ally Hitler did not surrender.

No, the conversations about marxists and the left are extremely relevant. It is all about the resentment that many feel because their countries are relatively weak compared to the US.

If you have a father complex to boot, then the natural tendency of the leftist's complex is to condemn only the actions of the "overdog", even in the case of the extremely brutal and criminal Japanese government, who did what they did with the approval and support of their people who were not innocent any more than the Italians or the Germans were or the French fascists or the fascists of the Eastern European countries that aided and abetted the fascist takeover were.

Come on! This is stretching it a bit don't you think? The atomic bombs were not dropped in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor! The attack on Pearl Harbor occurred years prior. The bombs were dropped because the consensus was  that the fanatical Japanese leaders were not about  to give up and would have continued fighting until millions more Japanese died. I knew a number of WW II veterans that fought the Japanese (up close and personal in the trenches). I wish they were still around to tell their stories about the atrocities that the Japanese military committed against POWs and civilians. Good lord! The Japanese, just for kicks, threw Chinese infants up in the air and caught the infants on the way down with the ends of their bayonets! The number of civilians killed by both atomic bombs in Japan pales in comparison to those killed in places such as Germany during WW II. All sides engaged in atrocities during WW II. It was a terrible time in the world. And I venture to say that had Japan developed the bomb before the west did, Japan would not have hesitated to drop the bomb on its enemies. And why wouldn't they? History shows that up until the end of WW II, Japan was an extremely war-like nation ruled by fanatics and tyrants.

If the Japanese were about to surrender, why didn't they surrender after the first bomb, within 24 or 48 hours?

That disproves the "about to surrender" argument. 

The truth is that they wanted a CONDITIONAL, not an UNCONDITIONAL surrender so that they could save their war criminal emperor from prosecution, as I said before.

The number of civilians killed in a 12 hour firebombing of Tokyo were just the same as that atomic bomb blast.

There are many scholars, and, as I said, how can you say that they were going to unconditionally surrender when they could have done just that within 48 hours of the Hiroshima bomb dropping?

You simply can't.

And why should hundred of thousands or just tens of thousands of US soldiers die to save the lives of two hundred thousand Japanese? Based on what?

The US soldiers were "innocent" as well.

Really? I guess we should have checked to see that they were all in before dropping the bomb. I do condemn us for that.

They had already had discussions and there were two camps, as usual. It took a second bomb before the hold-outs conceded to unconditional surrender over the group that wanted to protect the criminal emperor.

Have you watched the scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" with the actual invasion? 

Innocent men and women were killed in all the battles, but less so than in ancient wars, believe it or not.

War is barbarous and no one sane wants it, but this careful selection of the US's dropping of the bomb stems from ideology originating in the character structure of the idealist who chooses to support the underdog, no matter how bad, over the overdog, no matter what good came out of his victory.

The power of the atomic ic bomb is far to powerful and will hopefully never have to be used again.

Anyone that has seen the carnage of even conventional weapons knows this kind of behaviour has to stop.  It is useless after more than 60 years to discuss the pros and cons of what happened and why.

We should, as a human race remember it but try not second guess those that made the decisions at the time.  I did see war torn Germany and again the carnage in Sarajevo.  To me it is incredible of what humans beings are capable of doing to one another.