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As TPTB escalate in Syria and conspire here at home, remember: the Generals didn't want to drop the Atomic Bomb

 
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As TPTB escalate in Syria and conspire here at home, remember: the Generals didn't want to drop the Atomic Bomb
It was those shitty elitist politicians that pushed so hard to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Joint Chiefs of Staff never formally studied the decision and never made an official recommendation to the President. Brief informal discussions may have occurred, but no record even of these exists. There is no record whatsoever of the usual extensive staff work and evaluation of alternative options by the Joint Chiefs, nor did the Chiefs ever claim to be involved. Here is but a sampling of the opposition from some of America's legends:


"In his memoirs Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's Chief of Staff - and the top official who presided over meetings of both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Combined U.S.-U.K. Chiefs of Staff - minced few words:

'[T]he use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender...

In being the first to use it, we...adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.'



Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet stated in a public address given at the Washington Monument on October 5, 1945:

'The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of Hiroshima and before the Russian entry into the war...[Nimitz also stated: 'The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan...']

In a private 1946 letter to Walter Michels of the Association of Philadelphia Scientists, Nimitz observed that 'the decision to employ the atomic bomb on Japanese cities was made on a level higher than that of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.'


Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., Commander U.S. Third Fleet, stated publicly in 1946:

'The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment...It was a mistake to ever drop it...[the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it...It killed a lot of Japs, but the Japs had put out a lot of peace feelers through Russia long before.'


Time-Life editor Henry R. Luce later recalled that during a May-June 1945 tour of the Pacific theater:

'...I spent a morning at Cavite in the Philippines with Admiral Frank Wagner in front of huge maps. Admiral Wagner was in charge of air search-and-patrol of all the East Asian seas and coasts. He showed me that in all those millions of square miles there was literally not a single target worth the powder to blow it up; there were only junks and mostly small ones at that.

Similarly, I dined one night with Admiral [Arthur] Radford [later Joint Chiefs Chairman, 1953-57] on the carrier Yorktown leading a task force from Ulithi to bomb Kyushu, the main southern island of Japan. Radford had invited me to be alone with him in a tiny room far up the superstructure of the Yorktown, where not a sound could be heard. Even so, it was in a whisper that he turned to me and said: "Luce, don't you think the war is over?" My reply, of course, was that he should know better than I. For his part, all he could say was that the few little revetments and rural bridges that he might find to bomb in Kyushu wouldn't begin to pay for the fuel he was burning on his task force.'
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Re: As TPTB escalate in Syria and conspire here at home, remember: the Generals didn't want to drop the Atomic Bomb
Good post, five stars.
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