[ACC25110]

Many Americans now look upon the atomic bombings as one of the most shameful things the United States ever did. Speaking as a historian, most of my profession now admits (and teaches in their classes) that the bombings were unnecessary, vengeful and done for reasons of racism and an unsuccessful attempt to intimidate the Soviet Union. But there are also still many Americans, particularly those who were brainwashed by World War II propaganda, who think the bombings were justified as revenge for Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was such a direct attack on American and particularly white American notions of invincibility that it infuriated them to a level of hatred never unleashed before on any other ethnic group. (And that is saying quite a lot, given what’s happened to blacks, American Indians, etc, in this country.) They simply felt they HAD to have revenge and get their bloodlust sated by these bombings. Some will bring up the old lie that the bombings were done to ‘save a million American lives,’ but historians debunked that decades ago. Truman simply made the number up, (the real estimate was between 10,000 to 30,000) and all his generals (even Patton) thought both the bombs and an invasion were not needed to finish off Japan.

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Name : ACC25110, Gender : M, Race : Mexican and American Indian, City : Phoenix, State : AZ, Country : United States, Occupation : Historian, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,