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Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb Against Japan

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This book tells us the very tragedy of a so human scholar from Harvard, Henry Stimson, who happened to serve as the Secretary for War towards the end of Pacific War (WWII), and eventually was forced by the "cheap" president Harry Truman, his surroundings (in particular James Byrnes, Secretary of State) and US military forces to sign the order to drop two A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Japan where Henry loved and had many scholarly friends.

The US "official" reason for using these two A-bombs still remains to end this bloody war as soon as possible to save the life of so many American young soldiers for their invasion/occupation of Japan, but the "real" reason was to intimidate Josef Stalin of USSR by demonstrating the unprecedented destructive power of these A-bombs upon Japanese cities, in an attempt to block the invasion of USSR into East Europe towards the end of this war.

In other words, the bombs were used mainly to start the "Cold War", instead of hastening the end of WWII (saving American lives). The real force that hastened the end of war, the unconditional surrender of Japan was the "scheduled" invasion by USSR into Manchuria, China, on August 7, which took place between the US drop of two A-bombs (August 6 and 9) on Japanese cities, according to the secret agreement between FDR and Stalin (3 months after the surrender of Nazi-Germany in May 1945).

I believe if the "great" president FDR were still alive around June and August, 1945, FDR would listen carefully to Henry, and decide not to drop A-bombs on any cities. FDR knew very well that the Russian invasion into Manchuria would end immediately the great war. Unfortunately the history was not in favor of both Henry and the perished people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, simply because FDR died suddenly in April, 1945, a month before the surrender of Germany.

All American (in particular young people) should read this book to understand/learn their own history during the last "great" war correctly.

Here we go again. America didn't drop the bombs to intimidate the USSR. We dropped the bombs to save American and Japanese lives. If we hadn't dropped them and instead invaded the home islands of Japan the U.S. would have lost upwards of 100,000 men. The Japanese would have lost tens of thousand per month from starvation alone. The Japanese gov't. had threatened to kill every one of the nearly 200,000 allied prisoners of war if there was an allied invasion (surely Henry Stimson would have known that).The Japanese would have lost millions of lives in protracted combat on their own soil. How many times do we have to point these things out before biased and anti-American "academics" quit trying to portray the Fascist mass murdering perpetrators of WWII as the victims??!!