World War II Atomic Bomb by William Cohen-Pratt https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty Made with wonder en-us 2018-01-30 12:36:02 UTC 2025-11-24 19:37:06 UTC hello@padlet.com Bernstein, Barton J. -The Atomic Bombings Reconsidered 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/226039680 Secondary Scholarly Source
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]]> 2018-01-30 12:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/226039680 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227705382 the memoranda frequently said 'after the bomb is used' or 'when it is used' and never 'if it is used']]> 2018-02-03 00:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227705382 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227705654 "'if the project succeeds, there won't be any investigation. If it doesn't, they won't investigate anything else'" -Stimson]]> 2018-02-03 00:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227705654 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227705698 In the last 4 days of the war, 1,000 American bomber planes killed more than 15,000 more Japanese, some after the surrender]]> 2018-02-03 00:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227705698 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227705826 "The opprobrium might follow an ill considered employment of such force" -Marshall]]> 2018-02-03 00:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227705826 Libby, Justin H, - The search for a negotiated peace: Japanese diplomats attempt to surrender Japan prior to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227893858 Secondary Scholarly Source]]> 2018-02-04 19:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227893858 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227894637 Japanese ambassador to the US, Hiroshi Saito announced in 1934, “Japan will commit national suicide, if necessary, to pursue her plan of establishing peace in the Far East”

]]> 2018-02-04 19:28:55 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227894637 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227894735 In a Gallup poll from June 1945, 70% of Americans said they wanted the emperor to be hanged for war crimes and Japan destroyed completely for Pearl Harbor]]> 2018-02-04 19:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227894735 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227895094 Japanese responded to Potsdam Declaration with a statement surrounding the term mokusatsu “to kill with silence, take no notice, or treat with silent contempt”]]> 2018-02-04 19:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227895094 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227895447 Churchill and Roosevelt had announced the demand for Japan’s unconditional surrender at Casablanca in 1943. This declaration was repeated at Potsdam in Germany by Truman in 1945. After the Hiroshima was hit with the first A-bomb, the Japanese were given three days to surrender but did not, so Nagasaki was hit

]]> 2018-02-04 19:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227895447 May, Michael Perry and Astore, William J. -Atomic Bomb: Was the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Justified? 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227895826 Secondary Scholarly Source]]> 2018-02-04 19:38:37 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227895826 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227896077 Japanese believed the US would land again in Kyushu so they planned out the beaches of entry and prepared a 900,000 strong army in northern Kyushu. A landing there would have been a “nightmare”

]]> 2018-02-04 19:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227896077 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227896327 Atomic bombs gave Japanese peace advocates a tangible reason for wanting peace

]]> 2018-02-04 19:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227896327 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227896368 Epicenter reached 5,400 F and equivalent to 12,500 tons of TNT, 
  • One atomic weapon equal to five hundred B-29’s in a conventional raid
]]> 2018-02-04 19:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227896368 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227896626 End of war was in sight since the assault on Saipan 15 June 1944. This was the Japanese Absolute Zone of National Defense. Koiso Kuniaki then was unable to stop the American advance toward his homeland and left before he would accept the prime minister position in 8 months

]]> 2018-02-04 19:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227896626 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227896951 By July 1945, the US firebombing raids had gutted more than 40% of 66 urban centers in Japan, Japan still had 2 million soldiers and 10,500 with 5,000 kamikazes ready to defend]]> 2018-02-04 19:46:49 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227896951 Harry S. Truman - Personal Memoirs 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897076 Primary Source
Pages 416-426]]> 2018-02-04 19:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897076 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897214 When Stalin was told of a “new weapon of unusual destructive force” he hoped the US “would make good use of it against the Japanese”

]]> 2018-02-04 19:48:32 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897214 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897349 “We could wait for a miracle but the deadly tragedy of a better war crowded in on us. We labored to construct a weapon of such overpowering force that the enemy could be forced to yield swiftly once we could resort to it. It was the primary aim of our secret and vast effort”]]> 2018-02-04 19:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897349 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897436 “We gave the Japanese three days in which to make up their minds to surrender, and the bombing would have been held off another two days had weather permitted”]]> 2018-02-04 19:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897436 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897516 “In deciding to use this bomb I wanted to make sure that it would be used as a weapon of war in the manner prescribed by the laws of war. That meant that I wanted it dropped on a military target”

]]> 2018-02-04 19:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897516 Kaleria Palchikoff Drago - NPR Interview, Seeing the Horror of Hiroshima 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897663 Primary Source]]> 2018-02-04 19:51:26 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897663 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897805 “The skin just peel off. Some of them you could see the bone. Their eyes were closed. The nose bled. Lips swelled and the whole head started swelling… keep on vomiting until they die, blood rushed out and that was the end of them”

]]> 2018-02-04 19:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897805 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897832 “My dad told us, he said, ‘now you’ve got to forget all of this. It’s going to make you very sad and the experience must be extinguished from your mind’”

]]> 2018-02-04 19:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897832 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897891 “[Her interview or story] has never before been broadcast in the US”]]> 2018-02-04 19:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227897891 To what extent were the Americans ethically justified in the dropping of the atom bomb? 20cohenprattw https://padlet.com/20cohenprattw/3xvja1dlngty/wish/227898060 Key: 
Politics
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US officials
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Surrender and preparations of japan
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