140 Days to Hiroshima
by David Dean Barrett · first published 2020
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If anyone thinks that dropping the bombs was unnecessary, I would recommend reading Barrett's 140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon: * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51089656-140-days-to-hir... * https://www.nationalww2museum.org/about-us/notes-museum/140-... It documents,…
on “Hiroshima (1946)” ↗> I think that everybody who supports the use of nuclear weapons should […] I think that everybody—pro and con—should read 140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon by David Dean Barrett who uses Japanese sources (including Cabinet minutes) to look at Japan's decision making process before, during, and after the…
on “The Clouds of Hiroshima” ↗…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyūjō_incident I do not know how anyone can think that Japan would have stopped fighting without the bombings when two bombings barely got things over the line. The book 140 days to Hiroshima by David Dean Barrett goes over the meeting minutes / deliberations and interviews to outline the timeline, and it was not a sure thing that the surrender was going to happen: the hardliners really wanted…
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