Hiroshima - Why the Bomb Was Dropped

Hiroshima - Why the Bomb Was Dropped


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Studio: Mpi Home Video
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Hiroshima - Why the Bomb Was Dropped
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Don't Overlook the Obvious: Keep It in Context
  • Finally, The truth is told.
Hiroshima - Why the Bomb Was Dropped
Starring: Peter Jennings
Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000060MVM
Release Date: 2002-11-26

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Don't Overlook the Obvious: Keep It in Context.......2006-09-19

If one were to focus on Truman's description of the atomic bomb as "the greatest thing in history" and NOT keep it in context with the Second World War, Give 'em Hell Harry would come across as a bloodthirsty warmonger to make Attila look like a boy scout - wait a minute, make that a "cub scout". It would serve to recall that despite Japan's attempt to negotiate an end to the war with the Soviet Union (with whom they had a non-aggression pact), Molotov under the strict direction of Stalin refused to even meet with the Japanese until after Hiroshima had been destroyed. When a meeting was finally sanctioned on August 8th, the Soviet message to Japan was a declaration of war, which promptly ended any further discussion.

On the evening prior to Hirohito's message ("We must bear the unbearable . . ") on the 14th of August, a group of relatively junior officers attempted a coup to prevent the broadcast of the emperor's decision to surrender; their position, in the spirit of Bushido, was to defend their home soil to the last man. Indeed, even after the formal surrender, there were still units fighting fiercely on the Asian mainland. Small cells of Japanese soldiers held out on islands in the Pacific for literally years, although most were isolated and refused to believe the "propaganda" that the war had ended.

To grasp the enormity and gravemen of that time, and, consequently the political decisions that dictated the state of the world for generations to come, is not something that can be capsulized. Among a multitude of arguments, the arguments that conventional bombing precluded the need for a nuclear strike, or that an invasion of the Japanese mainland scheduled for November 01 would result in a million Allied casualties are grist for an academic mill, and will be debated for centuries. To conduct such debates along any moral guidelines is pointless: A conflagration that consumed no less than 55 million human beings is not a moral issue. It is an error in logic to try to make it so.

5 out of 5 stars Finally, The truth is told........2006-01-13

For far too long, people have been parroting the same soundbites about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The truth is, there was nothing noble about it. It was a terrorist attack that was aimed at the center of the city, not any military target. People often mistake these bombings as retaliation for Pearl Harbor (which was a military target in a time of war)...check the dates! Different alternative avenues were ignored in this shamefully tragic decision. I was impressed with the notion that dumb pride was put aside to show the errors in this horrific chapter in history.

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