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   4 hours ago · Commenting on the use of the atomic bomb, then-U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson stated, "The atomic bomb was more than a weapon of terrible destruction; it was a psychological weapon." [59] In 1959, Mitsuo Fuchida , the pilot who led the first wave in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor , met with General Paul Tibbets , who piloted the ...

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   Was the atomic bomb used against Hiroshima more lethal than fire bombing?

   • Neither fanfare nor hesitation accompanied their choice, and in fact the atomic bomb used against Hiroshima was less lethal than massive fire bombing. The war had so brutalized the American leaders that burning vast numbers of civilians no longer posed a real predicament by the spring of 1945.

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   Did Stimson think bombing was a moral problem?

   • By June 1945 the mass destruction of civilians via strategic bombing did impress Stimson as something of a moral problem, but the thought no sooner arose than he forgot it, and in no appreciable manner did it shape American use of conventional or atomic bombs.

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   Did US leaders know we didn't have to drop atomic bombs?

   • "Opinion: U.S. leaders knew we didn't have to drop atomic bombs on Japan to win the war. We did it anyway". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-07-23. ^ "This is how Hiroshima started our nuclear addiction". The National. 2020-06-15. Retrieved 2023-07-23. ^ Oppenheimer 1948, p. 66. ^ "Leo Szilard, Interview: President Truman Did Not Understand".

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   What did Noam Chomsky say about the atomic bombings?

   • In 1967, Noam Chomsky described the atomic bombings as "among the most unspeakable crimes in history". Chomsky pointed to the complicity of the American people in the bombings, referring to the bitter experiences they had undergone prior to the event as the cause for their acceptance of its legitimacy.

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   Who were the early critics of the bombings?

   • Early critics of the bombings were Albert Einstein, Eugene Wigner and Leó Szilárd, who had together spurred the first bomb research in 1939 with a jointly written letter to President Roosevelt. Szilárd, who had gone on to play a major role in the Manhattan Project, argued:

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   Was the bombing a decisive factor in ending WW2?

   • The mainstream position in the United States from 1945 to the 1960s regarded the bombings as the decisive factor in ending the war, which has been termed by commentators as the "traditionalist" view or pejoratively as the "patriotic orthodoxy."

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