Best of G&R: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and "Atomic Diplomacy", 80 years later (G&R 407)

It's the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has the Doomsday Clock at 89 seconds to midnight, while Trump moves nuclear submarines closer to Russia in response to social media posts by Russian officials. Aerial photographs of the Gaza Strip look eerily similar to Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago.

It's a good a time as ever to consider and re-consider the lessons of Truman's "Atomic Diplomacy" in 1945. So we're reposting our episode on the atomic bombing of Japan at the end of World War Two.

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From the 2020 episode: “For years, large majorities of Americans have believed that the U.S. had to use the A-Bomb against Japan on August 6th, 1945 to end the war quickly and avoid a land war and thus save one-million American lives.

Scott and Bob discuss the use of the bomb, why it was used as a message to the Soviet Union and not a military necessity, the chronology behind the development and deployment of atomic weapons, the U.S. public response to it, and the creation of a new history, a propaganda piece, regarding the use of the bomb. The dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima was vital in the development of the Cold War, the arms race, the military-industrial complex, and the National Security State.

Seventy-five years after the first atomic weapon was used by the U.S., it’s still a highly-debated and important topic.”

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Outro- Green and Red Blues by Moody

🔗 Links//

🤔 80 years later, Americans have mixed views on whether use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima, Nagasaki was justified (https://bit.ly/4mbPPXc)

😬 Gar Alperovitz: The War Was Won Before Hiroshima—and the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It (https://bit.ly/47mDGtJ)

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