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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (26523)	4/28/2004 7:59:51 PM
From: bearshark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Apparently, in July, Mr. Truman, Mr Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek broadcast to the Japanese the Potsdam Declaration. It was an 8-point item. The final point said the alternative to surrender was "prompt and utter destruction." [Whatever someone would consider that to mean.] According to Manchester after Nagasaki was bombed, "B-29s were ranging over the Japanese homeland, sowing the air with millions of pamphlets: "TO THE JAPANESE PEOPLE America asks that you take immediate heed of what we say on this leaflet. We are in possession of the most destructive force ever devised by man . . ." "The message warned, 'We have just begun to use this weapon against your homeland.'" Shortly after that excerpt, Manchester states about the Japanese Government: "In the beginning the government had very little information about the pulverization of Hiroshima. Throughout August 6 Tokyo had been unable to establish routine communications with the city, and no one knew why. At dawn next day Lieutenant General T. Kawabe, deputy chief of the Army general staff, received a single-sentence report that made no sense to him: 'The whole city of Hiroshima was destroyed instantly by a single bomb.'" Here is another tidbit. ". . . the Japanese did have one nuclear physicist of international distinction, Yoshio Nishina." "The government then flew him over the desolate city, and as Nishina later told American officers who questioned him, 'As I surveyed the damage from the air, I decided at a glance that nothing but an atomic bomb could have created such devastation." Apparently, Mr. Nishina told the Japanese military that it was nuclear. However, only he knew what that meant.