The 1931 Japan-made September 18th Incident opened the World War II prelude, and Japan embarked on the road of war and fascism. The July 7 Incident began, and Japan's full-scale war of aggression against China began. After 14 years of world war , Japanese fascism finally ended with atomic bomb . Isn’t this mushroom cloud rising over Japan the flower of justice?
All along, Japan has been using the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as examples, dressing itself up as a war victim. In 1995, Japan more frequently declared to the outside world that it was the only victim country to suffer atomic bomb attacks. Some Japanese even asked Sweeney and others, the American pilots who dropped the atomic bomb, to come out and apologize. However, Japan has never acknowledged its historical role as a war initiator and invader, and even vehemently denied that it had ever committed anything like the Nanjing Massacre. The heinous crime, those Japanese comfort women who were ravaged like devils in hell, did not wait for Japan to repent or apologize until their death.
So the 75-year-old Sweeney, who had long since retired, took action and delivered the famous speech "No Wounded Souls Under the Atomic Bomb". Let's recall the last historical facts of World War II. In May 1945, after the German and Italian fascists surrendered, Japan's defeat was certain but it was still running on the road of madness. On July 16, the first atomic bomb explosion test was successful. On July 26, the "Potsdam Declaration" signed by China, the United States, and Britain demanded Japan's unconditional surrender but was rejected. The United States dropped its first atomic bomb on August 6. After that, the Japanese army had three days to surrender, but they continued to do evil.
When Nagasaki was bombed by the atomic bomb, the Japanese emperor finally announced his surrender. Even under these circumstances, the Japanese military claimed that it could and should continue to fight. A group of army officers rebelled to intercept and destroy the emperor's edict announcing surrender to the Japanese. The Japanese army vowed never to surrender. They were prepared to sacrifice their own people in exchange for what they understood to be glory and honor - no matter how many died.
On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender.
A reporter once asked Truman if he had any other options besides nuclear bombs. He answered no, and the victims of Pearl Harbor had no other options either! Of the two cities where atomic bombs were dropped, Hiroshima is the city of Japan's army and the seat of the Second General Army Headquarters for Japan's homeland defense. All Japanese armies heading to China, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Nanyang Islands set sail from Hiroshima. Nagasaki is an important base for Japanese industry, especially the shipbuilding industry. Given the bellicose nature of the Japanese military, Japan will never lay down its butcher knife unless it is a lethal deterrent, and the price paid by the people of various Asian countries will inevitably be even heavier.
In the 60 years since the defeat of fascism, Japan has always adhered to the stubborn attitude of "admitting defeat but not admitting mistakes" from top to bottom. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has continued to tamper with textbooks, briefly discuss or even ignore the history of World War II in education, and avoid committing criminal acts. , entire generations of Japanese did not know what their country did in World War II. The people only saw the atomic bombings and considered themselves "victims". They forgot that during World War II, the domestic people cheered for every victory of the Japanese army, forgetting the victims of the Japanese army's brutal invasion all over the world.
Charles Sweeney said bluntly in his speech: "The Japanese people should give the Far East people an answer to who imposed the disaster on the Far Eastern countries, and finally on Japan itself." In World War II, the Japanese army showed it to the greatest extent It is a ruthless, cruel and inhumane man-eating machine. No matter how clearly the battle was lost, no matter how slim the chances of victory, no matter how certain the outcome, the Japanese fought to the last man. It was the atomic bomb that ended the war in time! Only atomic bombs must be used to end their sins!
So like Sweeney, I agree that dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was the right thing to do! President Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan was not only consistent with the circumstances at the time, but was also a moral necessity that overridden other possible options.After the atomic bomb was successfully manufactured, only these two were used in the war. There are no innocent souls under the atomic bomb, it is all retribution.
