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In a Newsweek interview, Ike would add: “…the Japanese were ready
to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful
thing.”
Countdown to Hiroshima, for July 31, 1945: Top Truman Aide Opposes Use of Bomb Greg Mitchell, HUFFINGTON POST, : 07/31/2013 For
the past several days here, and for more to come, I am counting down
the days to the atomic bombing of Japan (August 6 and August 9, 1945),
marking events from the same day in 1945. I’ve written hundreds of
article and three books on the subject: Hiroshima in America (with Robert Jay Lifton), Atomic Cover-Up (on the decades-long suppression of shocking film shot in the atomic cities by the U.S. military) and Hollywood Bomb (the wild story of how an MGM 1947 drama was censored by the military and Truman himself).
Here are previous daily pieces this month in this unique series.
July 31, 1945: The assembly of Little Boy is completed. It is ready
for use the next day. But a typhoon approaching Japan will likely
prevent launching an attack. Several days might be required for weather
to clear.
In Germany, Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of staff to Truman–and the
highest-ranking U.S. military officer during the war–continues to
privately express doubts about the bomb, that it may not work and is not
needed, in any case. He would later write in his memoirs:
“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon
at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war
against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender
because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with
conventional weapons.”The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the
future are frightening. 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.”…………… Read more
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