Hiroshima Day 2024

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   "I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief  that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was  completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country  should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose  employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save  American lives"  —Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower       

  "The Japanese had, in fact, already sued  for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely  military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.  — Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz     

  "The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all."  — Major General Curtis LeMay       

"The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment … It was a  mistake to ever drop it … [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted  to try it out, so they dropped it …" — Fleet Admiral William Halsey, Jr      


"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."

- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) American physicist, known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb"

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Follower of Jesus, non-conformist, preacher, poet, blogger, graduate of Highland Theological College, Husband, Father, Son, Brother, Friend, Learning Assistant (ASN) Outdoors. Late diagnosed Autistic.

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