Hiroshima

[filkertom]

Sixty-four years ago today, the US detonated an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. a few days later, they dropped another over Nagasaki.

May such weapons never be used again.

Comments

[holzman.livejournal.com]

His Majesty the Emperor, mindful of the fact that the present war daily brings greater evil and sacrifice upon the peoples of all the belligerent powers, desires from his heart that it may be quickly terminated. But so long as England and the United States insist upon unconditional surrender, the Japanese Empire has no alternative but to fight on with all its strength for the honor and existence of the Motherland.

The Emperor was trying to end the war. Prince Konoe was nearly sent to the Soviet Union as a special Envoy, and only didn't go because he couldn't get there before Potsdam.

The coup attempt seems to contradict your assertion that the military was trying to arrange a cease fire masquerading as a surrender, rather than the Emperor seeking to negotiate a surrender.

What's truly sad is that all the little countries of the world are trying to get these weapons, just so they can brag and pretend it's cool.

What's truly sad is that you think it's about bragging rights and being cool and not a very, very close study of how the U.S. deals with Pakistan and North Korea as compared to, say, Iraq.