Military Book Review Atomic Salvation: How the A-Bomb Attacks Saved the Lives of 32 Million People
by Tom Lewis The Decision to Drop the Bomb This book, aimed at the 75 th anniversary of the Atomic Bombings and the end of World War II in the Pacific, is really out of its time and place. Author Tom Lewis ( The Empire Strikes South) wants to reframe the bombings, picturing them in a positive light. His whole message is really in the title – the bombs “saved” millions of people. There was a time for this argument, in the middle 1990s when the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in the United States sought to put on display the Enola Gay B-29 aircraft that had dropped the A-Bomb on Hiro...
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