Since World War II, it ended in 1945 when U.S. bombers dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. It was also the first time that mankind had seen what a destructive weapon was.
However broke out shortly after the Second World War
Korean War
Later, the United States has been defeated and retreated, and it has been directly beaten back to the south of the 38th Line by the volunteer army. Why is this the case,
Would the U.S. military rather sign an armistice in disgrace than use an atomic bomb?
Let's take a look at the specific reasons for this.
Korean War Armistice
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China changed the situation of the Korean War
After the end of World War II, the United States served as part of World War II
The biggest winner
and
Beneficiaries
, all over the world
"Presiding"
pose as. And the Korean Peninsula is there
USSR
United States
Under the two major social camps, bounded by the 38th parallel north latitude, two regimes were established.
In the five years that followed until the outbreak of the Korean War,
The Korean Peninsula has always been in the middle of nowhere
North and South are divided
of the situation
The Soviet Union and the United States ostensibly advocate the reunification of Korea, but the United States and the Soviet Union, as superpowers of the two countries, are unwilling to give up their interests and status in Asia
Behind their backs, they support the regimes that are subordinate to themselves
。
In June 1950, the Korean War broke out in full swing
After the defeat of South Korea, the United States could not sit still.
The U.S. Seventh Fleet sailed in
Keelung, Kaohsiung
Two major ports
, patrolling near the Taiwan Strait.
When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the U.S. Seventh Fleet entered the Taiwan Strait
On September 15, 1950, U.S. troops landed in Korea at Inchon, blatantly intervening in the Korean Civil War.
At a time when the smoke of World War II was not over, the outbreak of the Korean War has always attracted international attention, and a series of moves by the United States to openly intervene in the Korean civil war immediately aroused the high vigilance of our government. My country immediately warned the United States Government:
If the United States ignores the agreement and crosses the 38th Line to invade Korea, China will not sit idly by.
However, the head of the United Nations army led by the United States at that time was known as the "five-star general"
Douglas. MacArthur
For MacArthur, the Chinese people in the early liberation period called him
"War Maniacs"
He was a typical representative of a well-known militant with a very imperial mind.
He believed that China, which was backward in military strength and impoverished at that time, did not dare to rush to send troops and participate in the Korean War, and even if China sent troops, he would certainly be able to win the war
。 Under his overarching intervention, the Korean War intensified, and the flames of war burned all the way to the banks of the Yalu River, and even more arrogantly fired frequent artillery into China.
MacArthur
At this time North Korea was oriented
Soviet Union, China
When seeking international assistance, the wolf ambitions of the United States have also been revealed.
In order to defend the country and defend world peace, China, which is poor and white, resolutely decided to send troops to Korea to meet the challenge of the United States, the world's number one power.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea immediately began, and it was the Chinese Volunteers who joined in, changing the situation before the Korean War and quickly breaking MacArthur's dream of "ending the war at Christmas." The United Nations Army led by the United States was defeated and retreated by the Chinese Volunteers, morale was low, and it was beaten all the way by the Chinese Volunteers from the Yalu River
Areas other than the 38th Line
At this time, the U.S. government was angry and ashamed, and they planned to use the last trump card -
atomic bomb
to turn the tide of the war. In an interview on Nov. 30, Truman made it clear that
If things get out of hand again and again, they will use whatever weapons they have, including that
Truman
However, we already know the outcome of the Korean War, which ended in the victory of the Chinese and North Korean peoples, and until the United States signed the armistice agreement, the United States did not use the atomic bomb that had been clamoring. This can't help but make everyone very curious,
What exactly caused the United States to abandon this terrible atomic bomb program?
Combined with the international environment at that time, there were many reasons why the United States did not dare to use the atomic bomb.
Opposition from the major allies
In an interview with reporters, Truman said positively that he would use the most advanced nuclear weapons to strike North Korea. As a result, as soon as this remark came out, it caused a sensation in countries around the world, those
U.S. allies also objected
The development of the Korean War has intensified, its scale has far exceeded the estimation of various countries, and the participating countries involved two major camps in the world.
Nearly 20 countries
。 When the United States said it would use the atomic bomb in the Korean War, the world was on guard.
United Nations Army
After the Second World War, other countries except the United States have suffered heavy injuries and scars, and the people of the world have just been freed from the tragic experience of World War II.
"Maintaining World Peace"
The slogan spread throughout the world, and no one was willing to start a third world war, which would cause damage to the economic and social development of their own countries.
Once the United States used the atomic bomb in the Korean War, it heralded a further expansion of the scale of the war, and no one in the various Western powers was willing to face that situation again. So when Truman made it clear that he wanted to use nuclear weapons in the Korean War, various Western countries that accompanied the United States in sending troops proposed it one after another
oppose
armistice
opinion.
Various countries have sent negotiators to talk with the United States and express their willingness to use the atomic bomb in the United States. In the face of public opinion around the world, the implementation of extreme tactics by the United States has been obstructed as never before.
It was condemned by almost the entire population.
Although the United States is powerful, under the opposition of various allies, if the United States continues to insist on going its own way and continues to invest nuclear weapons in the Korean War, the United States is bound to do so
Loss of all allies
In the end, it can only deal alone with the confrontation of the powerful socialist camp from the East, and even the counterattack of allies. This is a situation that the United States is worried about, and it is also a situation that the United States cannot face, and the United States has no choice but to abandon the strategic deployment of a nuclear strike against the DPRK.
There's an important point beyond that, and that is
Soviet constraints
In World War II, the United States moved towards
Hiroshima, Japan
Nagasaki
The two atomic bombs dropped shocked the world at home and abroad, and their lethality is well known. In fact, long before,
As one of the top superpowers in the United States, it has also begun to study nuclear bombs, but it has not progressed as fast as the United States; among them
Germany
Japan
We are also secretly conducting research and development of atomic bombs.
The two nuclear bombs dropped by the United States in Japan undoubtedly sounded an alarm for the world, so after the end of World War II, the Soviet Union immediately invested a lot of resources in the development of nuclear bombs and accelerated the research and development process.
But the reason why the Soviet Union's atomic bomb development progress was so fast was also so fast
Thanks to the United States
On August 9, 1945, the United States had planned to drop two atomic bombs on Japan, one for Japan
, the other is cast
Kokura
There is Japan in Nagasaki
Mitsubishi Arsenal
Nagasaki Shipyard
Two targets, and Kokura also has one
arsenal
。 However, on the day of the bombing, due to the weather, the atomic bomb was not dropped on Kokura, and in the end, both atomic bombs were dropped on Nagasaki. But what no one expected was that one of the two atomic bombs was
dud
After the end of World War II, Japan turned around and gave the bomb to the Soviet Union.
At the same time, famous scientists
Einstein
Realized that if only the United States is allowed to master the technology of atomic bomb research and development, the world's military power will be seriously imbalanced, and the consequences will be immeasurable, so
He secretly sent a large amount of atomic bomb research and development materials to the Soviet Union.
With the assistance of both parties,
In August 1949, the Soviet Union successfully tested the atomic bomb in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan
As a result, the nuclear monopoly of the United States after World War II was broken, and the Soviet Union became the second country in the world to possess nuclear weapons.
Einstein with Soviet female agent Margarita
In 1950, the Korean War broke out in full swing
On the issue of the Korean War, the two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, have been in a state of cold war, and South and North Korea are in the camp of both sides. So the Korean War was not just a war within Korea, in essence,
It was led by the United States and the Soviet Union
A contest between two major social camps
During China's Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the United States has always been arrogant and arrogant, relying on the strength of its military strength, and naturally did not take into account China, which was destitute at that time and seriously backward militarily. However, under the stubborn resistance of the volunteer army, eventually
It ended with the victory of the Chinese and Korean peoples
。 At the same time, in the Korean War, the Soviet Union did not give positive assistance, but in
Air Force
，
equip
And other military forces have given more or less some assistance.
Stalin
At that time, the Soviet Union and the United States, two different camps of great powers with equal strength, no matter what actions the United States took in the war, it had to consider the Soviet Union's factors.
If the United States had used atomic bombs in the Korean War, the Soviet Union, as the socialist camp, would naturally not have stood by.
The two superpowers, both in control of the present
The most advanced military force in the world, and the most lethal nuclear weapons
The United States does not dare to act rashly, after all, the collision of two superpowers, the consequences are unimaginable to anyone.
Anti-war sentiment in the United States is high
After World War II, the United States, as the largest beneficiary country, was unprecedentedly powerful militarily;
The two atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, their lethality is huge, so that the world can see the strength of the United States and show muscle for the United States to establish hegemony. At the time as
The only one with nuclear weapons
This has undoubtedly boosted American morale.
Atomic bomb explosion scene
During this time, the U.S. military produced a group of extremely arrogant militant forces, and they even conceived it
A series of "new strategic and tactical ideas" that frantically use the atomic bomb
。 Different factions have also emerged from the US military, and the infighting in the US military has ultimately caused great influence within the country.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, the militant forces in the US domestic military were indeed rampant for a while, but with the gradual expansion of the scale of the war, under the call to maintain world peace, the world must not withstand another devastating war. With the intensification of the Korean War,
Very serious divisions began to arise in the United States, with fewer and fewer supporters of the war and more and more voices opposing the further expansion of the war.
But the history of the United States and the bourgeois "democratized" political system fundamentally determine that the United States will not follow the same long-term practice as Japan and Nazi Germany
"Militarism"
At any time, public sentiment and public opinion may be reversed due to the development of the situation and the influence of the mainstream voices in the world.
Japanese "Militarism"
With the chinese volunteer army joining the Korean War, the US military had a strong military force, and under the suppression of the Chinese and Korean People's Army, it was gradually defeated and retreated, which also made MacArthur slap in the face, and the belligerent forces represented by him were wiped out of prestige in the United Nations army and disgraced. The reason why MacArthur threw himself into the Korean War and kept clamoring on the Korean battlefield was because
He had hoped that the powerful U.S. military would be able to defeat in one fell swoop, and the North Korean army and the Chinese army, which was destitute at the time, would take advantage of this brilliant achievement to ascend to the heavens one step at a time and sit on the throne
President of the United States
Of thrones.
But to MacArthur's surprise, the stubborn resistance of the Chinese and North Korean People's Army, the fall of the US army, and the various words and deeds he had shouted before, instantly reduced him from a former national myth hero to a hero
Morally inferior
A clown with no political, no strategic mind, no self-talking
。 This also led to his disastrous defeat to his subordinates in the Republican primary.
Eisenhower
MacArthur was not only spurned by the American people, but also abandoned by the American army.
If this belligerent admiral really succeeds to the throne of the President of the United States, then a nuclear strike against North Korea will inevitably be launched, and the scale of the Korean War will instantly expand to the whole world, and neither the American people nor other peoples will want to see this situation.
At the same time, after seeing the great power of the atomic bomb, peaceful people in the United States began one after another
Condemns the use and development of nuclear weapons
, scrambling in the media to report on the horrors of the atomic bomb, said
The use of nuclear bombs will inevitably lead to a third world war and cause turmoil and destruction all over the world.
The tragedy of World War II is not wanted to be repeated, and if nuclear weapons caused World War III, the tragic degree can be imagined, and then the United States domestically
"Anti-nuclear" ideology
Begin to form. Public opinion at home has gradually widened, and the U.S. Congress and president have had to stop plans to use nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.
Chinese Volunteer Army
At the same time, the strong courage of the Chinese volunteer army also made the US military dare not act rashly, and the Chinese people's army, which had grown up and grown up after experiencing various wars, never feared any threat, just as Chairman Mao once said:
"He hit his atomic bomb, I hit my grenade!"
China has shown a spirit of sacrifice that has shocked the whole world, and the United States is afraid of its deterrence when it looks at its performance on the Korean battlefield.
In the end, the Korean War ended with the victory of the Chinese-Korean People's Army, and the United States did not use nuclear weapons until it signed the armistice. The victory in this war shattered the conservative forces of the United States, which intended to eradicate the communist wolf ambitions that endangered world peace in one fell swoop.
The United States signed the armistice
The Chinese People's War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is a great movement to defend human peace, and safeguarding world peace is a slogan for which people all over the world should strive.
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