Three things balance on a Knifes edge about my understanding of World war 2.
https://allpoetry.com/poem/19426891-Three-things-balance-on-a-Knifes-edge-about-my-understanding-of-World-war-2-by-Betweenkittensandriots
I join with the union of concerned scientist about the proliferation of nuclear weapons in this statement of understanding. One of my Chief concerns As An American citizen and someone who lives in modern world is Nuclear proliferation.
The problem with the Manhattan project and The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Nuclear weapons is quite simply if you create a nuclear weapon in 1945 you should be very very reluctant to actually use it because if you use it and let the world know you've achieved it they now know it's not only possible but the United States Military has actually done it which has already set in motion a Nuclear arms race which has pushed The clock of midnight doom back several ticks.
So all I have to say is that I cannot put myself in the shoes of someone living in 1945 as I did not I can empathize only so well.
Nuclear proliferation being one of my biggest concerns and that now established we can move on.
I am a Japanophile. I admire the land of the rising sun and it's people immensely. I have come of age consuming it's content, it's cultural output.
and FINALLY, I look at the Firebombing of Toyko, I look at the way the Plan for a Soviet Negotiated peace fell apart and with it and then finally Hirohito himself quietly admitted to his own Navy that the Soviet invasion was pivotal without even telling members of his own family all of it points to the fact that blaming the Bomb was just a way of saving face which means Truman acted too god damn soon he didn't give the Japanese time to fully absorb the Soviet Invasion and that they now faced Invasion from the Soviets in the north and the Americans from the south.
3 weeks. That's all I chose to ask for, a Delay. Not a land invasion of the Japanese home islands.
not a amphibious assault on the islands. Not even a refusal to use the nukes at all
Simply a Delay to see how things played out at the supreme council when it became clear The Soviets were now at war with Japan and had betrayed their pact and japan was now alone in the world against two super powers.
I do not condemn the nuclear bombs being deployed themselves but the Date they were used on being premature to establish that they were necessary to convince Hirohito to surrender.
it is the timeline nuclear weapons were used on that I condemn. I apologize for what we did.
I join with the union of concerned scientist about the proliferation of nuclear weapons in this statement of understanding. One of my Chief concerns As An American citizen and someone who lives in modern world is Nuclear proliferation.
The problem with the Manhattan project and The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Nuclear weapons is quite simply if you create a nuclear weapon in 1945 you should be very very reluctant to actually use it because if you use it and let the world know you've achieved it they now know it's not only possible but the United States Military has actually done it which has already set in motion a Nuclear arms race which has pushed The clock of midnight doom back several ticks.
So all I have to say is that I cannot put myself in the shoes of someone living in 1945 as I did not I can empathize only so well.
Nuclear proliferation being one of my biggest concerns and that now established we can move on.
I am a Japanophile. I admire the land of the rising sun and it's people immensely. I have come of age consuming it's content, it's cultural output.
and FINALLY, I look at the Firebombing of Toyko, I look at the way the Plan for a Soviet Negotiated peace fell apart and with it and then finally Hirohito himself quietly admitted to his own Navy that the Soviet invasion was pivotal without even telling members of his own family all of it points to the fact that blaming the Bomb was just a way of saving face which means Truman acted too god damn soon he didn't give the Japanese time to fully absorb the Soviet Invasion and that they now faced Invasion from the Soviets in the north and the Americans from the south.
3 weeks. That's all I chose to ask for, a Delay. Not a land invasion of the Japanese home islands.
not a amphibious assault on the islands. Not even a refusal to use the nukes at all
Simply a Delay to see how things played out at the supreme council when it became clear The Soviets were now at war with Japan and had betrayed their pact and japan was now alone in the world against two super powers.
I do not condemn the nuclear bombs being deployed themselves but the Date they were used on being premature to establish that they were necessary to convince Hirohito to surrender.
it is the timeline nuclear weapons were used on that I condemn. I apologize for what we did.
