Prager University – Was it Wrong to Drop the Atom Bomb on Japan?
In a new video from Prager University, Notre Dame history professor Father Wilson Miscamble explains why President Truman’s decision to use atomic bombs in Japan was the right thing to do.
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In recent years, many academics and others have condemned President Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as unnecessary and immoral. Yet this interpretation relies on a poor understanding of history that both lacks perspective and ignores context. Dropping the bomb shortened the war and saved countless lives — both American and Japanese. In five minutes, Professor of History at Notre Dame, Father Wilson Miscamble, explains.
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Every August 6 and August 9th, Japan should send us thank you cards. The atomic bombings undoubtedly saved millions of Japanese lives, and millions more of Chinese lives. The Japanese were murdering about a Hiroshima a month in China. And this doesn’t count the only reason that mattered – It saved on the order of a million US casualties.
If we had invaded, or resorted to the Blockade and Bomb plan that was becoming more favored, we would have rendered Japan essentially uninhabitable to human beings.
One thing you can count on is the tendency of progressives to try to rewrite history based upon their limited understanding of conditions in the past and their desire to justify their silly present protestations. I advise others to read unbiased literature about what the situation was at the time of dropping the bombs.