Why ?
Explore the intense debate on the use of atomic bombs in Hiroshima. Diplomatic failures, political pressure, and poor leadership decisions.
HIROSHIMA DAY - The Use Of Nuclear Weapons Can Never Be Justified
Learn more about the heavily criticised decision to detonate atomic bombs over Hiroshima and how nothing can be used to justify this level of disregard for human life.
The U.S. Truman administration's authorisation showed terrible reasoning, a complete lack of diplomacy, and a short-sighted, catastrophic show of military might.
Japan was already near collapse; instead of pursuing alternatives, the attack targeted a dense urban area where over 90% of the casualties were innocent civilians.
It set a dangerous new precedent for modern warfare by normalising atomic destruction. Uncover more on nuclear disarmament, humanitarian ethics, and peace movements.
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- Debunking the Myth of Why the Atomic Bombs Were Necessary | Brainwash Update 10/14 - YouTube 15123
- Was the Bombing of Hiroshima Necessary? Three Myths Debunked - Take Part 15124
- Debate over the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia 15125
- Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia 15126
- Surrender of Japan (August 15) - Wikipedia 15127
- Franck Report - June 1945 15128
- Hiroshima: Was it necessary ? - Doug Long 15129
- Why Hiroshima? - YouTube 15130
- United States & State Terrorism - Wikipedia 15131
- JOIN the fight to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons - ICAN 215718
- 75th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Ban the bomb 214587
- Publication: Keeping Nuclear Memories Alive - APLN 20.02.24 414990
- Hiroshima remembered - CND 08/2021 254063
- Churchill Urged US to ´Wipe Out´ Mosocow With A-Bomb - ICIJ 27.10.14 253087
- Don't let the victors define morality: Hiroshima was always indefensible - Guardian 09.08.20 217113
- Dropping Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Was Unnecessary - CD 06.08.20 214148
- 'Self-Centered Nationalism' Could Lead to War and Nuclear Disaster, Hiroshima Mayor Warns on 75th Anniversary of Attacks - CD 06.08.20 214146
- Revealed: How U.S. Gov’t & Hollywood Secretly Worked Together to Justify Atomic Bombings of Japan - Democracy Now 06.08.20 214145
- Hiroshima bomb: Japan marks 75 years since nuclear attack - BBC 06.08.20 213589
- 'Seared to death': The atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima - Aljazeera 06.08.20 213588
- The elusive horror of Hiroshima - National Geographic 05.08.20 215720
- The Lessons We Still Haven't Learned From Hiroshima and Nagasaki - CD 05.08.20 213793
- What Europeans believe about Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why it matters - Bulletin 03.08.20 215980
- Reflection on the Upcoming 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - CD 19.07.20 214586
- Why the United States did not demonstrate the Bomb's power, ahead of Hiroshima - Bulletin 8/16 15132
- The Hiroshima Myth. Unaccountable War Crimes and the Lies of US Military History - Global Research 7/13 15133
- Will Media Raise Key Questions About Hiroshima, and Nuclear Legacy, This Year? - Greg Mitchell 7/13 15134
- Enola Gay and the bombing of Hiroshima in World War II (Archive) 15135
- Decision to Use the Atomic Bombs on the Cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Gene Dannen) 15136
- Hiroshima: Needless Slaughter, Useful Terror - 1st Cold War Strike (Archive) 15137
- Not Everyone Wanted to Bomb Hiroshima - HNS 11/07 15138
- Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki - by David Krieger 8/03 15139
- Why the pilot of the Enola Gay has no regrets - Guardian 8/02 15140
- "Hiroshima was no longer a city" - ISR 9/00 15141
- Hiroshima; Breaking the Silence - Howard Zinn 7/95 (Archive) 15142
- Japanese seek Soviet help with surrender - July 13, 1945 15143
- Japanese Surrender on August 14 - Audio 15145
- The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 19 June 1946 - Archive 15146
- Strategic Bombing Survey (1946) - Wikipedia 15147