FILM HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI WHITE LIGHT BLACK RAIN

INTERVIEW STEVEN OKAZAKI
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[billy2bob]

"...the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

[siriuslybloo]

The war was full of unforgivable atrocities on both sides. I met many of the Hibakusha when they visited my town, and they are not the enemy, no matter what their imperialistic emperor did in the 40s. I am not their enemy, even if my government felt there was no alternative to using the A bomb. It was a time of war, and none of us born after it really know what it was like. These people are not my enemy. War is OUR enemy.

[boris1421]

If the japanese were ready to surrender, why did it take TWO bombs before they gave up?

[marmakine]

egoist american people

[nateboz2]

If you watch the whole documentary, like half the survivors agree that they would never have surrendered.

[billy2bob]

"The Potsdam Declaration ... wrecked everything we had been working for to prevent further bloodshed. ... Just when the Japanese were ready to capitulate, we went ahead and introduced to the world the most devastating weapon it had ever seen and, in effect, gave the go-ahead to Russia to swarm over Eastern Asia. ... I submit that it was the wrong decision. It was wrong on strategic grounds. And it was wrong on humanitarian grounds."

Ellis Zacharias, Dpty Director, Office of Naval Intelligence

[billy2bob]

"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons."

- William Leahy, Chief of Staff to Roosevelt and Truman

[1LowMan]

I know. There were alternatives; like invading Japan with ground force. Bad alternative, millions upon millions of lives would be cost there. Or we could have just not conquered the Japanese at all, which is plausible. But you don't do that in total war. So for our goals, it was the best choice, at the time. To make a better one would involve changing our entire mission.

[siriuslybloo]

I don't know if I agree or disagree with you -- in times of war sometimes extreme measures are called for because no end is in sight. I disagree that there was NO alternative. There are always alternatives. I agree that there may have been no BETTER alternative at the time. I wasn't alive then, so I can't know what it was like. For better or worse the bomb did stop the war g. I just wish it could have been done without so many civilian casualties.

[1LowMan]

There was no alternative to using the bomb.

[siriuslybloo]

I met the man second from the left at the beginning of the film. A lovely gentle person.