August 6th...&...August 9th
1945
The World Enters the
Nuclear Age
Hiroshima
Survivor
It's now been 70 years since the world took note of the United States' ability of destroying the entire planet on which we live....
...and the above dates
will live in history as the entrance of mass destruction
weaponry.
Those dates
represent President Harry Truman's decision to end
World War II by using the atomic bomb on the Japanese
cities of...
Hiroshima...
"Fat Man" Atomic
Bomb
and...
Nagasaki
"Little Boy" Atomic
Bomb
Can any of you imagine the weight on the President's shoulders when he was forced to make that fateful decision...
...a decision made by a
man who had assumed the office of President just 4 months after the death of the
only man to be elected to that office for 4 terms...
...a man who was
completely unaware of any such weapon or any knowledge of the "Manhattan
Project" while serving as Franklin Roosevelt's Vice President?
It was a momentous
decision that you may be unaware had an
alternative...
That alternative....
The Plans for the Invasion of Japan
We have a three part series of articles
for you beginning Monday, August 3rd, 2015 in our "History & Holidays"
Information Page, explaining in detail what
the American plans were as an alternative to the atomic
bomb...
...and the ramifications the United
States anticipated they would suffer, had that option been chosen.
We hope you will examine this series,
and then send us an email with your comments answering this
question:
If you were President
Truman, which option would you have chosen to end the second world
war?
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to:
Anthem Opinions
Administration
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