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This is an American West history course, focusing on American Western Studies. ... In fact, as a result of recent work by American historians, the Smithsonian museum was prepared to open its exhibit on the Hiroshima bombing by carefully looking at both sides of the debate over whether we should have dropped the bomb.
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www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/atomic.htm
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THE ATOMIC BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA; Hiroshima (August 6, 1945); Events: Dawn of the Atomic Era, 1945 ... The first confirmation of exactly what had happened came only sixteen hours later with the announcement of the bombing by the United States. Relief workers from outside the city eventually began to arrive and the...
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www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/hiroshima.htm
www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/hiroshima.htm
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STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES August 6, 1945 The White House Washington, D.C. Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. ... For these reasons Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt agreed that it was wise to carry on the project here.
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www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1945/450806a.html
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The Bombing of Hiroshima A Watershed in the History of Violenc ... When somebody is bombing, there is time -- Russia cannot destroy the whole of America in a day, nor can America destroy Russia in a day. But death rays will kill people and nobody will be able to know what is happening.
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www.osho.com/Topics/TopicsEng/Hiroshima.htm
www.osho.com/Topics/TopicsEng/Hiroshima.htm
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There were other ways to end the war against Japan, and the bomb was used for more reasons than ending the conflict in the Pacific Theater. ... If we in the United States continue to maintain that we were right in bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then by what right can we ask others to forswear nuclear weapons? If it was...
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www.sondra.net/concerns/hiroshima.htm
www.sondra.net/concerns/hiroshima.htm
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On 6 August 1945, an atomic bomb was exploded over Hiroshima, and the characteristic mushroom-shaped cloud can be seen in this photograph rising over ... Is it necessary to acquaint young people in Western countries with the true reasons behind the atomic bombing of Japan? I believe it is for at least two reasons.
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www.users.bigpond.com/pacificwar/AtomBomb_Japan.html
www.users.bigpond.com/pacificwar/AtomBomb_Japan.html
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White House Press Release Anouncing the Bombing of Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 ... For these reasons Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt agreed that it was wise to carry on the project here. We now have two great plants and many lesser works devoted to the production of atomic power.
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/truman/psources/ps_pressrelease.h...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/truman/psources/ps_pressrelease.html
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Leahy believed the atomic bomb would probably not work. After the atomic bombings of Japan, Leahy condemned the use of the atomic bomb for practical reasons: ... The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons." (William D.
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www.doug-long.com/leahy.htm
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On August 8 - before the Soviets announced their declaration of war and before the Nagasaki a-bomb was detonated - Foreign Minister Togo met with the Emperor to tell him what he knew of the Hiroshima bombing. They agreed that the time had come to end the war at once (Pacific War Research Society, DML, pg. 300;
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www.doug-long.com/hiroshim.htm
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