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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor was the catalyst for the retribution of the bomb, of that there is no question. Whether it was the Japanese invasion of China in 1932, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the German blitz over England during the Battle of Britain, or the allies indiscriminate bombing of Nuremberg or Dresden, both needless in determining the outcome of the war, but both as brutal in their effect, all sides were guilty of these events.įurthermore, when one considers the totality of the western way of war historically, that of complete destruction of the enemy being the norm rather than the exception, one can begin to understand the devastation that was World War II, and also why the West takes great pains to ensure that nothing happens again on that scale. Carpet bombing of civilian targets was not only routine, but an integral part of war planning. The world during the Second World War was certainly much different before the war than after it, a phenomenon I refer to as the Hitlerian Effect (yes, I will be writing on that in depth in the future). The problem is that quite often pundits fail to take into account historical context, the time period, it’s morality and mores, preferring to layer on top of their studies the morality of the day in which the analysis is taking place-the cardinal sin in the study of history, and the mistake pundits, commentators, and academics alike make. It’s something that plagues historians, commentators and academics, not to mention the public One of the traps both historians and non-historians fall into is something called generational chauvinism the idea that we, in our age, know better than those in the past and therefore we can then pass judgement on those actions, usually in the negative. The loss of civilian life was tragic, with over 100,000 dying, many in the initial blast, while tens of thousand of others perished due to radiation poisoning, one of the after effects of the bomb itself. Criticism has surfaced in the modern age (post World War II) as to whether the bomb should have been dropped at all considering the loss of life and, of course, the devastation to both Hiroshima and the people that lived there. Over the decades since this event, there has been a lot of speculation as to the efficacy of President Truman’s order that initiated the atomic age.
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Today, August 6th, is the anniversary of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.