Evidence of America's Injustice to the Japanese

1. November 1945, Robert Oppenheimer referred to the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities as annihilating "an essentially defeated enemy. President Truman and his closest advisor, Secretary of State James Byrnes used this as a way to prevent the Soviet Union from sharing the occupation of Japan. They also used it August 6th despite agreeing amongst themselves as they left the Potsdam Conference that the Japanese were seeking out peace.

2. Historians say that the dropping of both bombs led to the immediate surrender of the Japanese. When in reality it was the invasion of the Soviet Union in Manchuria on August 8, two days after the bombing on Hiroshima.

3. The Enola Gay Exhibit in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. claimed that "special leaflets were dropped on Japanese cities" to warn them to evacuate. The leaflets were actually dropped onto the cities after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed.

Proof of Evidence #1- 3: http://www.commondreams.org

4. Hiroshima did not contain any "special military base, used as a staging area for Southeast Asia. The bomb had been aimed at the very center of the city of 350,000 civilians, it was a continuation of the American policy of bombing civilian population to undermine the morale of the enemy.

5. Out of all the thirty targets, only four were specifically military in nature. The "industrial" sites only contained three textile mills. A U.S. survey of the damage was not released to the press had shown that residential areas had experienced the full brunt of the bomb, with less than 10% of the city's manufacturing, transportation and storage facilities were damaged.

Proof of Evidence #4 and #5: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Article/The-Day-After-Hiroshima-How-the-Press-Reported-the-News-And-the-Half-Truths-That-Emerged

6. Captain Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay felt utter remorse as soon as the bomb was dropped.

'He describes the events of Aug. 6, 1945, while Tanimoto nods as if in commiseration: ''At 8:15 promptly, the bomb was dropped,'' he says. He goes on: ''Shortly after, we turned back to see what had happened. And there, in front of our eyes, the city of Hiroshima disappeared. I wrote down later,'' and here Lewis rakes his fingertips across his forehead as he fights for composure, his voice almost faltering: '' 'My God. What have we done?' ''

Proof of Evidence #6: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/theater/theater-hiroshima-bomber-and-victims-this-is-your-puppet-s-life.html

7. MacArthur biographer William Manchester describing General MacArthur's reaction to the Potsdam Proclamation to Japan:

"...the Potsdam declaration in July, demand[ed] that Japan surrender unconditionally or face 'prompt and utter destruction.' MacArthur was appalled. He knew that the Japanese would never renounce their emperor, and that without him an orderly transition to peace would be impossible anyhow, because his people would never submit to Allied occupation unless he ordered it. Ironically, when the surrender did come, it was conditional, and the condition was a continuation of the imperial reign. Had the General's advice been followed, the resort to atomic weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have been unnecessary."

8. Herbert Hoover visited President Truman to convince of a different and safer way of ending the Pacific

War.

"I am convinced that if you, as President, will make a shortwave broadcast to the people of Japan - tell them they can have their Emperor if they surrender, that it will not mean unconditional surrender except for the militarists - you'll get a peace in Japan - you'll have both wars over."

August 8, 1945, after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Hoover wrote to Army and Navy Journal publisher Colonel John Callan O'Laughlin:

"...the Japanese were prepared to negotiate all the way from February 1945...up to and before the time the atomic bombs were dropped; ...if such leads had been followed up, there would have been no occasion to drop the [atomic] bombs."

"The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul."

Early May of 1946, Hoover met with General Douglas MacArthur, he wrote in his diary:

"I told MacArthur of my memorandum of mid-May 1945 to Truman, that peace could be had with Japan by which our major objectives would be accomplished. MacArthur said that was correct and that we would have avoided all of the losses, the Atomic bomb, and the entry of Russia into Manchuria."

Proof of Evidence #7 and #8: http://www.doug-long.com/quotes.htm

9. The "Black Rain" that fell after the bombings contaminated the ground, this was one of the many sources of residual radiation.

Proof of Evidence #9: http://www.naturalnews.com/019176.html

10. Women who were pregnant at the time of the bombing ended up giving birth to children with congenial malformations caused by the radiation.

Proof of Evidence #10: http://lynzy.hubpages.com/hub/Hiroshima_Bombing_Affects