US Should Make An Apology To Japan For Hiroshima & Nagasaki / Video

US Should Make Apology 2 Japan 4 Hiroshima & Nagasaki Video. A short work containing the drawings of children and adults depicting what they saw and experienced. Producer: Frank Morrow. Production Company: Alternative Information Network. Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 2314 "Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation." A danger of modern warfare is that it provides the opportunity to those who possess modern scientific weapons especially atomic, biological, or chemical weapons - to commit such crimes. Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall pointed out that the use of the bomb was opposed by Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur and Admiral William Leahy, and that the Japanese had been sending out peace feelers for months. Urging exploration of those peace feelers were several Cabinet officers and one ex-president, Herbert Hoover. Instead, they were ignored, and the Enola Gay did its deadly work. In addition, Generals Hap Arnold, Curtis LeMay and William Halsey all reportedly felt the bomb was unnecessary, being either militarily redundant or unnecessarily punitive to an essentially defeated populace. From JOHN McCLOY (Assistant Secretary of War); McCloy quoted in James Reston, Deadline, pg. 500. "I have always felt that if, in our ultimatum to the Japanese government issued from Potsdam [in July 1945], we had referred to the retention of the emperor as a constitutional monarch and had made some reference to the reasonable accessibility of raw materials to the future Japanese government, it would have been accepted. Indeed, I believe that even in the form it was delivered, there was some disposition on the part of the Japanese to give it favorable consideration. When the war was over I arrived at this conclusion after talking with a number of Japanese officials who had been closely associated with the decision of the then Japanese government, to reject the ultimatum, as it was presented. I believe we missed the opportunity of effecting a Japanese surrender, completely satisfactory to us, without the necessity of dropping the bombs." On May 28, 1945, Former President Herbert Hoover visited President Truman and suggested a way to end the Pacific war quickly: "I am convinced that if you, as President, will make a shortwave broadcast to the people of Japan - tell them they can have their Emperor if they surrender, that it will not mean unconditional surrender except for the militarists - you'll get a peace in Japan - you'll have both wars over." On August 8, 1945, after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Hoover wrote to Army and Navy Journal publisher Colonel John Callan O'Laughlin, "The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul." MacArthur biographer William Manchester has described MacArthur's reaction to the issuance by the Allies of the Potsdam Proclamation to Japan: "...the Potsdam declaration in July, demand[ed] that Japan surrender unconditionally or face 'prompt and utter destruction.' MacArthur was appalled. He knew that the Japanese would never renounce their emperor, and that without him an orderly transition to peace would be impossible anyhow, because his people would never submit to Allied occupation unless he ordered it. Ironically, when the surrender did come, it was conditional, and the condition was a continuation of the imperial reign. Had the General's advice been followed, the resort to atomic weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have been unnecessary." From William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964, pg. 512. Norman Cousins was a consultant to General MacArthur during the American occupation of Japan. Cousins writes of his conversations with MacArthur, "MacArthur's views about the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were starkly different from what the general public supposed." He continues, "When I asked General MacArthur about the decision to drop the bomb, I was surprised to learn he had not even been consulted. What, I asked, would his advice have been? He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor." From Norman Cousins, The Pathology of Power, pg. 65, 70-71.

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[SmrtJugoslaviji]

the US will apologise as soon as japan does the same for what they did to pows and chinese civilians. jap barbarism surpassed the nazi camps.

[daytraderfbf]

@hound692 I see what you meant. What about the Philippines. Will they ever get an apology for the filipino death march?

[layinlo247]

@SmrtJugoslaviji the cilvilians didnt do anything... they killed 150 japan troops..150, and over 350k later dead frorm radiation, etc, UNACCEPTABLE FOOLISHNESS, and whoever called the hit shoulda been tortured, war is foolish, and all th scum who call for it need be hit hard in the head until theyre unconscuios

[Willredd94]

The US will not and should not apologize for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a matter of fact, the months of bombings in Tokyo did more damage than did the two atomic bombs. Truman was perfectly correct in his decision, the Japs still have not apologized for the millions of Chinese, Okinawan, Philippino and Burmese civilians they murdered and raped. A recent survey found that Americans support the bombings 62% to 21%.

[SnakeSHlZ]

Are you kidding me? Japan was a country of psychopath freaks throughout there entire history until the bombs gave them a taste of there own medicine

Do a YouTube search for “Rape of Nanking” and watch both part 1 & 2.

Hitler was just a beginner, a nice guy, compared to that freak Hirohito. A god? No. More like the devil on earth.

[SCE2AUX]

So did Japan ever apologize to Hiroshima for rejecting Potsdam?  And then to Nagasaki for not accepting that Hiroshima was pretty clear evidence of what we could do?

Because we sure as fuck aren't apologizing for either one.

[lumbanraja2]

hey fuck you if there one thing i hate more them americans that are muslims amd christians and jews these are ppl that should be exterminated there is only room for the Asian race nomore Arabs/Jews or Europeans they have no rigyt to be alive

[ke4bss]

Ha Ha, I laugh at this little, weeny, pathetic waste of a video. Japan should thank the USA for dropping the bomb because much worse was to come if they continued the war. Total anniliation!

[howiseethings]

Sad for a nation such as japan who wrought hell upon many an innocent soul for decades thinks they are owed an apology especially when by and large they, the japanese, have what is the equivalent to historical amnesia.

[howiseethings]

@lumbanraja2 FREE THE AINU!!

FREE THE RYUKYUAN!!

FREE THESE PEOPLE FROM JAPANESE TYRANNY!!

[howiseethings]

@tkkems Nobody influenced japan's actions 'back in the day'. The js have been doing that to their neighbors for years. Your knowledge of history is sketchy at best.