We launched the atomic bomb... and what?
On 25 July 1945 was sent a secret order of general Thomas T. Handy, substitute of the Chief of the staff of the forces armed of U.s. State, to general Carl Spaatz, commanding general of the strategic air force. Compliance with such indication of 24 lines written in a colourless military language, caused, in just two days, 6 and 9 August, provoke death 105 thousand people, terribly hiriese more than thousand 94, and conducive the almost total destruction of two Japanese cities.
President Harry Truman apelaría also a religious metaphor to describe its destructive power when he wrote in his journal:
"We have created the most terrible bomb that has known the universal history". "Will be the destruction by fire profetizada for the era of the Valley of the Euphrates..."
This immoral act of unprecedented barbarity, they defended against Hanoi and Haiphong, or against Belgrade and Baghdad bombing apólogos still attempt to demonstrate that the release of the bombs was needed to hit crucial military targets and accelerate the surrender of Japan, prevent the fall of more u.s. soldiers, stop the influence of the Soviets in the Pacific, and warn the world that his country had the weapon capable of guaranteeing the capitalist West supremacy in post-war. Let's look at some of these myths:
First myth: order issued by Truman and communicated to general Spaatz, indicated that only you should bomb military targets, avoiding damage to women and children. But the text of the filed order makes no such distinction:
"The 509, force air 20, Group - instructed - launched the first special bomb after 3 August 1945, as soon as the weather allows visibility." Select one of the following targets: Hiroshima, Kokura and Niigata or Nagasaki. "For transporting military and civilian scientists from the war Department in order to observe and document the effects of the explosion, must be enabled aircraft companions" (1). Truman deliberately lied on the first bombing, in his official announcement to the nation, white to say:
"16 Hours ago an American aircraft launched a bomb on Hiroshima, a major Japanese army base..." "It's an atomic bomb..." (2)
Second myth: the original plan saw the release of a single bomb, enough to compel the Emperor Hiroíto to unconditional surrender:
"Additional pumps will be released on, whites as soon as the team of the"Project..."end them - specifies the order-later be issued new instructions regarding other than those indicated white..." (3).
What should, only two bombs were then released?
Despite the fact that the Manhattan project had cost in just three years (1942-1945), almost two billion dollars, only be had been constructed three bombs: Gadget, plutonium, used for testing on 16 July 1945 in the desert of New Mexico; little Boy, uranium, released on Hiroshima on August 6, and Fat Man, plutonium, released on Nagasaki on August 9. You have had a major arsenal, no doubt they had used.
Third myth: the United States Government opportunely informed partners on what was done, and the world to the terrible effects of the bombing: "all the information relating to the use of bombs against Japan are reserved to the Secretary of war and the President." "-prompted general Spaatz-no release or information will be offered by the chiefs in the front..." (4)
While it is true that Americans maintained some communication with Churchill on the "project...", the first time that Truman mentioned Stalin, in passing, without specifying that it would be used against Japan, nor it atomic bombs, was during a recess of the Potsdam Conference, July 24, 1945, the day before being issued the warrant. In fact, the holding of the Conference itself was delayed, at his request, until it not conduct the test in New Mexico.
The way that Truman informed the world happened in Hiroshima not noted any in spite of having caused so many deaths and destruction ethical dilemma. Conversely, a morbid apocalyptic regodeo shown when he says: "at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese began the war from the air." They have now received heightened payment therefore. And this is still not over... The force which gives power to the Sun has been directed against those who carried the distant now East war ready to quickly and definitively destroy any productive company Japanese have in their cities. "We must destroy their ports, its factories and communications..." (5)
Until being released those nuclear bombs, continuous American bombing against Japanese cities, using incendiary bombs of high power, had caused more than 200 thousand victims.
A recent essay on the history of the Manhattan project and its ethical implications of Michael a. Bracchini, engineer of the University of Austin, concludes: (6)
"The loss of innocent in Hiroshima and Nagasaki life does not have any apology..." The murder of children cannot be justified... "When the U.s. launched pump, lost the moral superiority over Japan..."
One day after the bombing on Nagasaki, a pious President Truman responded follows Senator Richard Russell, who had urged launch new nuclear and conventional bombs on the Japanese:
"I know that Japan is a cruel and barbarous nation when waging war, but I cannot believe that because they behave like beasts should we act in the same way..." (7)
Each month of August, these days, listening to the dreary tolling Bell dome Peace Memorial erected in the zero point of Hiroshima, and new victims names are added to the listed infinity
An editorial in The New York Times denounces the Bush by incessantly, undermine the nuclear non-proliferation Treaty administration.
They are the same. What comes afterwards?
Sources: 1) Official Bombing Order, July 25, 1945, in You are not allowed to view links.
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(2) Harry S Truman´s Announcement Of the Droping of An Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima, 1945 in You are not allowed to view links.
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(3) Official Bombing... Oport Cit. (upload)
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(5) Harry S Truman´s Announcement... Oport Cit. (upload)
(6) Miguel to Bracchini: The History and Ethics Behind The Manhattan Projec, in You are not allowed to view links.
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7) Hiroshima: Harry Truman´s Diary and Papers, You are not allowed to view links.
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