progenyofworms:

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 6 August 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, despite knowing that Japan was about to surrender. Here are an illuminating series of quotations from leading American political and military figures revealing the reality behind the bombing, including General Dwight D. Eisenhower who said: “Japan was at the moment seeking some way to surrender with minimum loss of ‘face’. It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.” – https://ift.tt/2v9PA7Z https://ift.tt/2LUNdQi