And this past week we’ve seen more of the usual revisionism that either the dropping of the atomic bombs were barbaric, criminal, had no effect, were unnecessary, and/or a bad mark on the history of the United States’ activity in World War II. So, in other words, they were afraid if they dropped the bomb and it didn’t work or it didn’t go off with a blast capacity they anticipated, the Japanese would sort of slough it off and say, “Is this all you have?” And then they wouldn’t have had other bombs to remind them that they should surrender under duress. More importantly, it was very dangerous to fly from Tinian, the Mariana’s base of the B-29 bombers that were alone capable of handling this 10,000-pound monstrosity among American aircraft, to fly 1,600 miles into the Japanese mainland to drop the bomb and then fly back.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Published at: 2025-08-11 22:00:55
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