Japan, as the only country in the world to be bombed by atomic bombs, the root cause of its disaster lies in the indiscriminate pursuit of Japanese fascism and extremist militarism around the world. After the atomic bomb exploded, Japan was forced to surrender, and the United States was a hit.
In order to study the impact of the atomic bomb, the United States sent reporters to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for field investigations, and recorded the devastation after the atomic bomb explosion with the camera, the most famous of which is a Japanese boy carrying his dead brother to the crematorium.
Japan after a nuclear strike
The boy carried his dead brother to the crematorium
The little boy in the photo does not have much other expression on his face, he has no anger, no grief, not even fear and fear, only a gritted teeth but almost expressionless perseverance and solemnity.
According to the investigation, the little boy is named Akihiro Ueto, and according to the investigation, there is an old mother in his family who is seriously ill from nuclear pollution, and his father has long been killed in the nuclear explosion. This made the young Akihiro Kamito have to take up the burden of supporting the family early.
A little boy carrying his brother to the crematorium
Look closely at the child he was carrying behind his back, his body backwards, his head tilted casually, looking as if he were asleep. The child was Akihiro Ueto's younger brother, who was starved to death because there was no food. Akihiro Ueto walked slowly with his brother on his back to the burning lime cave, a "crematorium" that had been erected in the nuclear ruins to burn corpses.
Ruins after the atomic bombing
After waiting for a while, the heavily armed staff of the crematorium came and removed the body of his brother on Akihiro Ueto's back and sent it into the raging flames of the lime cave.
Facing the death of his brother, although Ueto Akihiro's heart is sad, it is more numb in the face of war, so his expression in the photo does not fluctuate too much. However, it is this calm and numbness that reflects the cruelty of war, but it makes people feel extremely painful.
The ruins of Japan after the nuclear explosion
Why was Japan dropped an atomic bomb?
The so-called evil does not suppress the right, Japan is greedy enough to swallow the elephant, but a small country with a projectile has a beautiful dream of dominating the world, which can be described as laughing and generous. With the fierce resistance of the anti-fascist camp during World War II, the Japanese soldiers were defeated, and the end of defeat was already doomed.
However, Japan still chose to resist and fight to the death, and even attacked the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in an attempt to seize the oil resources of European and American countries in the Pacific region to maintain Japan's huge war.
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
However, the attack on Pearl Harbor completely angered the United States, so that the United States, which had been wavering on both sides of the neutral position, completely sided with the anti-fascist camp and was forced to get involved in the Second World War. Afterwards, in order to commemorate the defeat at the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the United States also set December 7, 1941, the day of national shame, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, which shows how much pearl harbor attacked the United States.
The United States has always shown itself as a "crazy critic", and while retaliating against Japan by conventional war means, they have also sacrificed their long-brewed "super killer": nuclear bombs. The United States has been brewing for a long time for nuclear bombs, as early as a few years ago, roosevelt, who was then the president of the United States, accepted a proposal from the famous physicist Albert Einstein and decided to start developing a new weapon with unprecedented power.
Einstein proposed the atomic bomb plan to Roosevelt
In order to successfully develop this big killer, the United States gathered the top scientists in various fields of physics in the United States to carry out this top secret project - known as the Manhattan Project. Among them, including Qian Xuesen, the "father of the atomic bomb" who is studying in the United States.
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the U.S. Marine Corps only mastered the absolute superiority after a bloody battle and a huge price. Especially after the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the U.S. military conducted a detailed assessment of the Resistance of the Japanese army and the possible casualties of its own side, and found that the Allied forces expected casualties of more than one million people, an outcome that the Allies could not bear.
Schematic of the Manhattan Project
Therefore, in order to promote Japan's early surrender, end the war, and reduce the casualties of American soldiers, the United States decided to directly drop the atomic bomb with high lethality, quick effect, and low investment on Japan.
According to the instructions of the "Outline of Japanese Landing Operations", the original battles prepared by the United States were the Kyushu Island Landing Battle and the Kanto Plain Landing Battle, and after formulating these two battle plans, the Southwest Pacific Command gave a war assessment and found that the US military would only pay 50,000 casualties.
It is said that MacArthur, after obtaining this assessment, still felt that the casualty figure was too large, so if the data described in this document is true, then the US military's claim that it will kill 1 million American soldiers after the war is not valid. As a result, many historians have speculated on two reasons.
The power of the atomic bomb
Japanese historians believe that the reason why the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan was mainly to test the power of the atomic bomb in actual combat. The lethality data we know today are based on the nuclear explosion in Nagasaki, Hiroshima. American historians believe that the reason why the United States dropped the atomic bomb is largely related to the Soviet Union's struggle for hegemony.
Since the end of the European war, the Soviet Union and the Western camp have begun to look at each other. As early as the European battlefield, the United States and the Soviet Union began to play a secret game. At that time, Japanese territory had long been included in the strategic points that the U.S. military had to fight for in order to facilitate the surveillance of the post-war Soviet Union.
At the same time, the Soviet army at that time was invincible on the European battlefield, and the front line was advancing quite quickly, so when the Soviet Union eased up on the European battlefield, it was very likely that it would also intervene in Japan and share a piece of The pie with Japan.
Schematic diagram of the U.S.-Soviet struggle for hegemony
Therefore, in order to avoid the Soviet Union seizing its territory in Japan and ending the Soviet infiltration of Asia, the US military must achieve control of Japan in the fastest possible time.
The atomic bomb, on the other hand, was obviously the first choice for destroying Japan's tenacious will to resist as quickly as possible. After the atomic bomb landed, the United States not only declared its "ownership" of Japan to the world, but also successfully demonstrated to the Soviet Union the powerful military strength of the United States to deter the Soviet Union.
Scene of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
Sword of Damocles
After the atomic bombing, the purpose of the United States was indeed achieved, but the hundreds of thousands of Japanese people who were innocently affected by the atomic bomb aroused widespread sympathy in public opinion.
In the decades after the atomic bombing, Hiroshima-Nagasaki became a barren wasteland, and many humans and creatures were affected by nuclear radiation, resulting in death or mutation. And those survivors, as a result, have long suffered from disease and physical disability, and they are afraid of life.
A ruin after the atomic bomb exploded
Just as the so-called "no unjust soul under the atomic bomb", although the suffering of the innocent Japanese people is shocking, in the final analysis, it is also because the Japanese authorities launched a war of aggression and massacre. If they were willing to live in friendship and peace with their neighboring countries, they would not have incurred such a disaster.
But what happened to Japan is also thought-provoking: What would it be like if the atomic bomb were to be used in more wars after that?
Perhaps it is precisely because of the fear of nuclear weapons, the sword of Damoric hanging overhead, that the major powers at the center of the world's whirlpool are intensely and fiercely developing nuclear weapons, and finally a delicate balance of mutual containment and avoidance of the monopoly of nuclear weapons has been formed, and no one dares to take the lead in provoking incidents.
A ruin after the atomic bomb exploded
Otherwise, the number of nuclear arsenals of China, Russia, and the United States alone would be enough to destroy human civilization dozens of times. Therefore, I hope that Japan's nuclear explosion will be the first and the last. Only peace and development are the eternal themes of human development.
Today, after suffering the great humiliation of the atomic bomb, Japan is still willing to become a dog under the hands of the United States with a twisted and fanatical attitude of "worshipping the strong.", and after the Japanese "Emperor Taishang" MacArthur left Japan, many Japanese people even bid farewell to the "Emperor Taishang", which shows the gratitude of the Japanese people for "Beautiful Father". It is really "the joy of the United States by measuring Japan's material strength."
U.S. troops patrolling the Japanese army after World War II
Today, only 30 percent of Japanese can accurately answer the date of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and most of the 30 percent of Japanese who remember the date of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima are respondents over the age of 60.
Young Japanese people under the age of 40 have gradually forgotten this history. On the question of whether to forgive the US military for dropping the atomic bomb, the respondents who could not forgive it and "this is also a helpless move" were basically the same.
It can be seen that this is the sorrow of a country in Japan and the sorrow of the Japanese nation.