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Maintain a moral purity u while a vast slaughter occurred at the rate of over 200,000 deaths a month. Isnt there a tragic dilemma here, namely which innocent lives to save. Could truman have rested at peace by prolong iing the japane domination of asia . As future anniversaries of the dropping of the bombs occur, i hope for less condemnation of trumans decision at least until the critics can specify a moral and still feasible course of action to end the war. Perhaps there might even be some empathy for the man required to make the decision and who carried the burden of his harry truman of inde...

Of course, allied american cover in particular is far too strong for it, but its kind of their last gasp. The idea is they have to have the American Fleet in a place where they know they can find it. They dont have enough fuel to sail around the ocean. Even if American Power werent an issue. Yes . Also right here they launched 355 kamikazes. Although we did some back and sink the yamato and escort ships as well. Absolutely. The American Navy suffers more deaths at okinawa than they did in their whole previous rest of the pacific war. Now how does that play into the japanese strategy . Got to c...

Coming up, American History tv on cspan 3 looks at the dropping of the atomic bomb during world war ii. Next grant weller teaching a class on american and japanese strategies leading up to the dropping of the bomb. Then a debate on president trumans decision to use the atomic bomb. Later president trumans zbroond join survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki to consider the legacy of the atomic bombs. Next u. S. Air force Academy History professor grant weller teaches a class on americas use of the atomic bombs against japan at the end of world war ii and examines japanese social and political atti...

The triple punch. Hiroshima, the soviet invasion of manchuria and nagasaki. Within 3 1 2 days, japan has to absorb these major blows. Finally, there is enough of an impact on the japanese Senior Leadership to make a difference. Its not that there had been no one in japan who was contemplating getting out of the war by surrendering up until this point. Certainly nobody did it publicly. But within high government circles, there are peace advocates, folks saying the war is lost, we need out of this. But they were outnumbered and outvoiced, outshouted in some cases, by the militarists who wanted t...

Decision to use the atomic bomb. In 1999, a poll of journalists ranks the bombing is the top new story of the entire 20th century. Beating out the landing on the moon, the attack on pearl harbor, and other prominent stories and events that occurred in the last century. The importance of a story of the atomic bombings of japan, has come over the last five decades or so, a enormous and highly acrimonious controversy, both among scholars and among the general public. It is safe to say that the issue of the atomic bombing is arguably and it is a strong argument the issue of the atomic bombings of ...