President Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima (extended version) | Tokyo
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This video is far longer than Educational Video Group's video. SUMMARIZATION OF THE CLIP: President Harry Truman announced to the world that the atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, marking it the first time nuclear warfare was used. A U.S. warplane dropped a single bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. Truman then cited a brief history that the Japanese began the war with the U.S. from the air at Pearl Harbor. With the atomic bomb, the U.S. added a new increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of its armed forces. Truman also stated that the atomic bombs were in production (in addition to making conventional weapons) and that more powerful forms were in development. Truman also gave information about the destructiveness of the atomic bomb and that it was used against those who brought war to the Far East. Truman then stated that with the atomic bomb, the U.S. military was prepared to destroy every productive enterprise the Japanese have in any of their city by attacking their docks, their factories, and their communications in deadly and rapidly ways (far more than any conventional raid, even the firebombing of Tokyo on March 9-10, 1945 which killed 100,000 Japanese civilians in one night). Truman said there was no doubt that he was willing to destroy Japan's power to make war. Truman stated that dropping the atomic bomb was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction by citing the Potsdam Declaration issued to Japan which was promptly rejected by Japanese leaders. He then gravely warned the Japanese that they would face a "rain of ruin from the air" followed by attack from sea and land forces in such large numbers and power, if they did not accept the terms of the ultimatum. Truman stated that it cost $2 billion dollars in developing a few atomic bombs and that the U.S. had won the atomic arms race. He thanked the scientists because they helped making the development of the atomic bomb happen. He then cited that the U.S. have more money and resources to create atomic bombs and the cooperation of both industries and scientists under the direction of the U.S. Army helped created a successful atomic bomb in a short time. Truman then stated that the atomic bomb was the greatest achievement in the history of science.
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There can be no doubt that the surrender prompted by the dropping of the bombs saved thousands of Yankee lives and millions of Jap lives.
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I spit on this man's grave and anyone related to him. 怪獣の父!!!!!!
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truman was nothing more than a poltical prostitute. pearl harbor was allowed to happen with fore knowledge.
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I am so glad that was not my decision to make. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we did not have to worry anout these dangerous weapons.
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YES MISTER TRUMAN ....YOU HAVE STOLEN IT FROM
THE GERMANS....Herr Oppenheimer-Einstein did it
..........that is the real history ......not the English-
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with liberal goverments, the war against Japan would have been lost, and aussi women would have been made japanese army prostitutes, as they made with dutch girls
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As Obama mentioned in his speech in Hiroshima on May 27, 2016, U.S. did kill American soldiers by Atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
http://www.thenation.com/article/hidden-history-american-pows-were-killed-hiroshima/ -
If U.S. can justify the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima/Nagasaki, other nations can justify future uses of nuclear weapons by the same logic: "No surprise attack, no A-bombs", "Needed to avoid massive casualties in invasion", "Needed to stop the war", or whatever. Those who justify the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki are telling other nations/terrorists "You can do it, too!".
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Thank God for Harry Truman having the courage to do what had to be done.
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The way I see it, Imperial Japan is basically Atlantis. It was a corrupt civilization that finally got what it deserved.
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Made a video describing God's Righteous Judgment against Paul Warfield Tibbets the pilot of the Enola Gay that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and all the other war mongers out there. You are not innocent of your actions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLIbTmPT72M
Praise I AM,
Michael Idarecis -
You people need to read Quora-
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How many Japanese nationalists does it take to change a light bulb?
Four
The first to break the lightbulb and stab several Chinese and Koreans with it
The second attack uncle sam as he tries negotiating to stop the murder of innocent Chinese
The third to be kicked in the groin when Uncle Sam fights back
The fourth to claim the broken light bulb was purely made up to justify the third one’s injury -
truman was wrong from many people point of view... America had warned but Japanese are such determined people they were not ready to surrender.. if america would have not done this then Japan would have invaded it's neighbouring countries.. america british and Russia if they wanted to capture then they would have lost lakhs of army and millions of dollars would have been spent on ammunition... however bcz of blast common people died, even if there would have been normal war then also many common people would be dead... bcz of bomb people from two place r dead if there would have been war people of whole Japan would have to suffer....
its against humanity... but to save millions of Japanese and millions of other countries they had to sacrifice thousands....
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Americans are wicked, evil, murderous and bloodthirsty , warmongering people.
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Think about it this way idiots, if Truman chose the land invasion, all the A bomb victims probably would have died in those battles anyway.
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What Truman called the greatest achievement of organized science in history was the worst war crime that has ever been committed by members of the human race. Disgusting.
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Japan deserves an apology, but IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM from the former Allies.
Rather, they need one from the fanatical militant government that led them into a brutal war in China.
Then when warned by leaflets to escape a city that was to be bombed, murdered those who read said leaflets.
If they let civilians leave,they could ghave gotten away from Hiroshima before it was too late.
Even today, the US govt continues to send follow-up researchers to Hiroshima to check the after effect of the bomb on human bodies.
What do you, Americans, think of your govt that has been doing this?