80 Years Later: The Case For Hiroshima

By Ed Morrissey

 

Eighty years ago today, the United States ushered the Atomic Age into being with a single air strike on the city of Hiroshima. Three days later, the US dropped another atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki. And ever since, the global and media establishment has worked hard to apply “perfect retrospection” to those decisions in order to paint Harry Truman as the villain of August 1945, and the US as war criminals for a war fought on Japan’s terms.

We can expect the 80th anniversary of these events to provide more historical revisionism and ex post facto judgments on these two bombings. In fact, I expect that to such a degree that I won’t even bother linking to such arguments, as they have become the Received Wisdom among the cognoscenti for decades. We saw that plainly enough in the Christopher Nolan film Oppenheimer two years ago, which promoted the idea of Japanese victimization at the hands of a cruel Truman and his bloodthirstiness.

Unfortunately for the cognoscenti, the evidence to the contrary is both abundant and accessible. Historian Richard Frank tackled all of the material from government records, both from the US and the Japanese Empire, in his comprehensive and essential book Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. I wrote about this two years ago shortly after writing about Oppenheimer, to which I’ll return in a moment…

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