{"id":16033,"date":"2012-08-08T03:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=16033"},"modified":"2012-08-08T03:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T11:12:00","slug":"which-terrorist-group-daddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/which-terrorist-group-daddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Which terrorist group, Daddy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At 8:16 on the morning of August 6, 1945, the world got a glimpse of its own mortality. At that moment, the city of Hiroshima was obliterated by a fireball that sent waves of searing heat, then a deafening concussion, across the landscape. Three days later [Aug. 9], a second bomb hit Nagasaki. … [President Dwight D.] Eisenhower said in 1963 “It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.<\/em><\/strong>”<\/p>\n

… Besides the Manhattan Project’s internal momentum was an external motive. Its leaders had to justify the $2 billion ($26 billion in today’s dollars) expense to Congress and the public<\/strong>… Byrnes…warned Roosevelt that political scandal would follow if it [the atomic bomb] was not used. … “How would you get Congress to appropriate money for atomic energy research<\/strong> [after the war] if you do not show results for the money which has been spent already?<\/strong>” …the U.S. had produced two types of bombs–one using uranium, the other plutonium. Whenever anyone suggested that the moment the bomb was dropped the war would be over, [bureaucrat] <\/strong>Groves countered, “Not until we drop two bombs on Japan.”<\/strong> As [historian] Goldberg explains… “One bomb justified Oak Ridge, the second justified Hanford.”<\/strong>Hiroshima was hit with the uranium bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy”; the plutonium bomb, “Fat Man,” was used against Nagasaki.<\/p>\n

From Why We Dropped The Bomb <\/strong>By William Lanouette, CIVILIZATION, The Magazine of the Library of Congress, January\/February 1995 <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s hard for Americans who identify with the U.S. Government to accept the idea that that organization could have engaged in such horrendous acts – twice in three days – without pristine motives. Here’s what Vietnam era U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara – who was part of Gen. Curtis LeMay’s command when the bombs were dropped – thought about it: McNamara: “He, and I’d say I, were behaving as war criminals.” <\/a><\/p>\n

As far as war criminals go<\/a>, unfortunately we still have them<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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