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Re: Ridicule

On Sep 2, 8:09 am, Mr Soul <pc...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > That's why we picked an important military center like Hiroshima.
>
> Wrong - Hiroshima was not an important military center - it was a
> civilian target.

Nope.  Hiroshima was Japan's largest military town.  Hiroshima's
military districts held tens of thousands of soldiers (giving it the
highest soldier/civilian ratio of any Japanese city).  Hiroshima
Castle held the headquarters of the Japanese Second General Army,
which was in charge of repelling any invasion in the southern half of
Japan (which is where we were planning to invade).  The entire city
functioned as a major military center.



> " To be able to assess the damage it caused, and to impress the
> Japanese government with the destruction it was expected to wreak, it
> was necessary to choose a city that had not yet been touched by the
> USAAF's strategic air offensives."

Doesn't change the fact that they chose a major military center.



> "The Target Committee at Los Alamos on May 10-11, 1945, recommended
> Kyoto, Hiroshima, Yokohama, and the arsenal at Kokura as possible
> targets. The committee rejected the use of the weapon against a
> strictly military objective because of the chance of missing a small
> target not surrounded by a larger urban area.

True, but of those urban areas large enough for the bomb, they chose
those with the greatest military significance.



> The psychological
> effects on Japan were of great importance to the committee members.
> They also agreed that the initial use of the weapon should be
> sufficiently spectacular for its importance to be internationally
> recognized. The committee felt Kyoto, as an intellectual center of
> Japan, had a population "better able to appreciate the significance of
> the weapon." Hiroshima was chosen because of its large size, its being
> "an important army depot" and the potential that the bomb would cause
> greater destruction because the city was surrounded by hills which
> would have a "focusing effect". "

It was more than just an army depot.  It was their primary military
port.  The large depot was there because it was where all their
soldiers deployed from when they went to invade other countries, and
they needed to be able to supply their departing soldiers.



> "Hiroshima IS (not was) a city where 140,000 people died as a result
> of the U.S. dropping the first atomic bomb during World War II. It was
> not a prime military target but was bombed because it was one of the
> few major cities left in Japan which had not been the subject of U.S.
> firebombing campaigns.

Nope.  It was one of the biggest military targets in Japan.



> As an un-bombed city it allowed the U.S. to
> better asses the effectiveness of the new bomb. And how effective it
> was killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians (not
> soldiers)."

The bomb killed a lot of soldiers along with the civilians.



> The American goal was to kill as many people as possible.

The goal was to convey the power of the bombs to Japan's government,
and hopefully shock them into surrendering.



> > > The Japanese were effectively crushed by the time we dropped those bombs.
>
> > Yet they were still refusing to surrender.
>
> The Japanese were already looking for a way to get peace by the summer
> of the 1945 and they knew that they were beaten.

Shame they were refusing to surrender.

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