Bart,
Phil was right. His view is extensively
documented in Richard Rhodes'
/The Making of the Atomic Bomb/ which won the
Pulitzer Prize and the
National Book Award. It's not light reading,
it's over 700 pages, but
it traces the history of the Bomb from the first
glimmers of imagination
to the final awful horror.
There are over 100 pages of footnotes, including
many personal
interviews with participants. The picture
that emerges of the final
decision to use the Bomb closely parallel's Phil's
version -- it was a
big totally unnecessary Science Fair experiment.
Rhodes wrote a sequel, /Dark Sun: The Making of
the Hydrogen Bomb/
which wasn't as well received but was even better
documented, and
shows well the runup to the scumwads that are
now holding forth
over national policy. For sixty years the
lion's share of the world's
wealth has gone to building parallel death machines
that could never
be conscionably used. Now that that race
is over the death makers
are desperate for new venues. Iraq is one
of those new games.
The evil that now infests the White House is not
a new evil. It has
been around for a long time in several forms.
The lies we are told now
are spectacular and unbelievable, but they are
not the first lies. These
bastards have been lying since before either
of us were born.
--localroger, author of "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect"
Subject: Use of atom bomb
Bart cop,
A foreign author and researcher by the
name of Ladislas Farago wrote a bombshell of a book many years ago,
entitled, "Burn after Reading".
The book was banned from the U.S. for many
years, but can now be found at your local library.
In the book, Fargo describes why the U.S.
used atomic bombs when Japan was already suing for a cease-fire
and an end to hostilities. The reason cited
by Farago was the U.S. was scared to death of the Russian bear and
was going to use the weapons, no matter
what, to intimidate the Russians.
Gen. Patton wanted to re-arm the German
Army and proceed to attack Russia while it was still weak after fighting
Germany.
Farago has extensive research notes included
in the book for anyone wishing to check history from a neutral source,
not
complementary garbage and half-truths written
by a "winner".
How many people can honestly say that they
knew Hitler's best units were fighting in Russia, and the "Allies" were
up against Germany's "average" troops?
My father was a POW, captured by German forces in Jugoslavia. He, and others
I have spoken with, have all told me the
same thing; the German soldier was highly trained, highly disciplined and
motivated,
and those were the "average" troopers.
I can't even begin to imagine what it must have been like on the Eastern
Front!
Check out the book. It's an excellent read!
bikertrash
Subject: Truman and the bomb
Harry Truman screwed me and a lot of other
Army Inactive Reservists at the start of the Korean War,
(many were partially disabled WWII vets
but the rich college boys had to be protected to be trained
to be our future leaders) but I think
the storyteller about the development of the A-bomb could be
completely wrong about Truman's role.
It has always been a well known scandal
that Truman was totally kept in the dark about the bomb and
possible other top secrets until FDR died
and left HST pretty unprepared to make decisions re the war.
I was attending college too on the GI Bill,
but I returned and finished after 13 months in frozen Chosen,
Land of the Morning Calm. After all these
years, I just realized the GI Bill students were called possibly
to cut expenses,i.e., the education costs
and the medical and disability costs of the disabled vets.
Thanks from a grateful nation now give us
some more and it was a final thank you for thousands.
Does this country love war or not?
LOT