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ESSAY 70
THE "ATOMIC BOMB" MYTH
Radical Left history revisionists are attempting to
blame the United States for dropping the atomic bomb on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Smithsonian debacle over the
exhibit of the Enola Gay provoked a justified backlash.
The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis were fighting the Allies
(United Nations) during WWII. Hitler alone was responsible
for the premeditated murder of 6,000,000 Jews and 5,000,000
Gentiles, plus the many casualties of war.
About 200,000 Japanese were killed or injured from the
two atomic bombs. Statistically, 200,000 deaths pale into
insignificance when compared to to at least 57,000,000
deaths for which the Axis powers were responsible during
World War II. The following table gives an idea of the
number of people killed in WWII:
Allied and Axis Military 17,000,000
People Murdered by Hitler 11,000,000
Soviet Citizens 19,000,000
Chinese Citizens (Est) 10,000,000
Civilians Without Records ?
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57,000,000+
Also remember that Japan and her Axis partners were the
aggressors.
JAPAN WAS DEVELOPING AN ATOMIC BOMB! Japan would have
used it against the United States, according to atomic
physicist Tatsusaburo Suzuki. Mr. Suzuki served on Japan's
WWII atomic research team. The team made eleven pounds of
enriched uranium and were on the right track to making an
atomic bomb. After the war, we found the research equipment
and dumped it in Tokyo Bay. (The Associated Press, "Japan
aimed to use atomic bomb," THE KANSAS CITY STAR, 20 July
1995, p. A-10).
Japanese fanatical dedication was demonstrated when
110,000 Japanese died defending Okinawa. Only 8,000 Japanese
surrendered. America lost 49,000 of its sons in this battle.
The conventional firebombing of Tokyo caused almost as
much destruction as the atomic bomb did at Hiroshima five
months later. Still, Japan was not ready to surrender.
What was the senario of taking Japan with conventional
warfare? Japan had 2,300,000 troops, 4,000,000 Army and
Navy employees, and 28,000,000 home militia--all who would
fight until death. Admiral Leahy, Truman's military advisor,
estimated that we would have 395,000 casualties just taking
the small Japanese island of Kyushe. Japan planned to exe-
cute 400,000 Allied POWs and civilian detainees when invad-
ed. Total United States casualties were projected at
1,000,000. Japanese casualties may have been as high as
4,000,000. Many Japanese cities would have have been level-
ed by bombing and shelling to "soften" Japanese resistance
to the invasion force.
Emperor Hirohito sent Koki Hirota with a proposal to
Josef Stalin on June 3, 1945. Japan offered to give the
Soviet Union all of Europe and half of the Orient, if the
Soviet Union would would join Japan against the United
States and England. Truman did not trust Stalin, and ordered
the atomic bomb to be dropped on the industrial city of
Hiroshima--it was dropped August 6, 1945. The Japanese did
not surrender. The Soviet Union declared war on Japan and
invaded Manchuria August 8, 1945. Truman ordered the second
atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki--it was dropped August 9,
1945. Japan surrendered unconditionally September 2, 1945
aboard the battleship USS Missouri.
As many as 5,000,000 lives on both sides were saved as
a result. The United States helped rebuild Japan and now,
with determined effort, the industrious Japanese people have
built a very strong economy.
The introduction of atomic warfare brought terror to
the hearts of people the world over. It brought a new type
of war doctrine, Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). The
idea is that if one world power used atomic weapons against
another, it would be destroyed also. This new mega-balance
of power may have prevented World War III--at least to this
point.
Many would like to do away with all atomic weapons.
This is an excellent idea, but how can it be done? How does
one atomic power know that the others have truly done away
with their atomic weapons? There is no way to verify the
word of the superpowers.
We cannot go back in time to the pre-atomic world. We
must work to reduce world nuclear threat. Keeping atomic
weapons from sociopathic leaders and terrorists is a must.
The United States must maintain military superiority. We
must develop a better Civil Defense.
Only the Prince of Peace can bring peace to individuals
and, later, to the nations of the world! Evangelism will
change the character of those who respond. Moral people
will reduce the threat of global disaster.
Each human life is of infinite value. May our leaders
invite the Author of Life into their hearts. Then, may they
recognize the value of life and avoid killing people.
And, oh yes, the writer's sister-in-law is Japanese.
Sources
Carl N. Degler et. al., THE DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE
(Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1963), p. 610.
Bruce Lee, "Why Truman Bombed Hiroshima." THE WALL
STREET JOURNAL, 5 May 1995.
N. W. Hutchings, "Why the A-Bomb Was Used on Japan,"
PROPHETIC OBSERVER, June 1995.
The Associated Press, "Japan aimed to use atomic bomb,"
THE KANSAS CITY STAR, 20 July 1995, p. A-10.
Unrecalled article by a military chaplain who served
during WWII, in CHAPLAIN, to the best of my memory.
THE WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA, 1993, s.v. "World War II,"
by James L Stokesbury.
END