This year marks the 65th anniversary of the victory of World War II and the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima. In the various commemorative activities that are held as usual, whether it is necessary to use an atomic bomb on Japan, which has only time to surrender, will remain a hot topic. The declassified files released by the United States in 2005 showed that the then Minister of the Navy Yonechi Mitsumasa called the atomic bomb "a gift from God to Japan." The chief reason why the Secretary of the Navy expressed such feelings was that Japan was doomed to fail in this war, and one more day would mean an unnecessary increase in the casualties of Japan, China and the United States and other allies.
After the outbreak of the Pearl Harbor incident, the United States was an enemy of the same enemy. Three young people in a small town committed suicide because they failed to pass the medical examination and were unable to participate in the war. The price of freedom is painful. Sometimes, two evils can only be the lesser of power. Landing in Normandy, more than 20,000 French civilians were killed by Allied air strikes. One of them left a touching last word: "Knowing that I am going to die is very terrible, because I have been looking forward to freedom for so long. But I know that because of my death, I can bring freedom to more people. Long live France! Allies Long live!"
The US military in "Blood Battle Pacific" not only collectively robs friendly materials, but also frightens bedwetting, mental breakdown and suicide. It is not uncommon to torture and kill prisoners of war. Marine Corps rookie Slaege witnessed his comrades prying gold teeth from the enemy's corpse; he was afraid of exposing the target, and the out-of-control man was beaten to death by his colleagues. Slash, who had a childish look, was so fiercely burnt by the war that he used a bayonet to pry the Japanese army's gold teeth.
"Blood Battle in the Pacific" took 1/3 of the space to describe the forgotten battle of Perry Iwo Jima: In April 1944, the Japanese army base camp dispatched the trump card among the trump cards, and served as the 14th division on the Chinese battlefield. Defense of Perry Iwo Jima. "The good defenders are hiding under the nine places": The Zhongchuan prefectural male squadron learned the lessons of Guadalcanal and no longer initiates a meaningless "long live charge", but hollowed out the entire mountain and used solid fortifications to fight to the end. With the loss of sea control, air control, and complete passive beating, the US military has paid a heavy price of 13,000 casualties. After the defeat and surrender, the remaining Japanese troops continued to fight. On April 21, 1947, the former Japanese Major General Sumikawa was invited to Perry Sulfur, who persuaded Lieutenant Yamaguchi to lead the last 34 Japanese troops to surrender.
Baslon, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor (the highest honor in the US military), did not need to fight again, but he could not afford to sell war debts and the peaceful life of a good wine. He repeatedly asked to go through fire and water. On February 19, 1945, he was killed in Iwo Jima. The United States has not signed an international convention banning the use of poisonous gas (the Second Declaration of The Hague on July 29, 1899). The rising number of casualties on Iwo Jima caused the media to exclaim "let the Marines take a breath and release poisonous gas on the Japanese." Five-star General Nimitz said after the war that the reason for not using poison gas was due to humanitarian considerations. The US military killed 6,812 people and wounded more than 19,000 in this battle! On the next island of Okinawa, the Japanese army and civilians (including thousands of students of the "Iron Blood Team") totaled 200,000 deaths, and more than 70,000 American casualties!
The ace troops of the Japanese army received rigorous training, and their individual combat capabilities were rare. The civilians were not ordinary, except for the desperate production of weapons and ammunition day and night. When Nanjing fell, the whole country was crazy and the Japanese paraded all night to celebrate. It is estimated that the Japanese archipelago was conquered and the people were brainwashed and kidnapped by militarism. The national pride and patriotic passion were so high that the military and civilians were united and the fighting force was strong. Fang's hair is horrified. On the other hand, the casualties in Japan are at least ten times that of the Allied forces! It must be recognized that using all means to end the war as soon as possible, smash Japan's war potential and fighting will, and reduce the losses of both sides in the war is the greatest humanitarianism.
On November 24, 1944, the US military dispatched 111 B-29s to bomb Tokyo; on March 9, 1945, due to the majority of wooden houses in Japan, 334 B-29s dumped more than 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo and dropped them directly. Dozens of tons of gasoline. Since then, B-29 air strikes in 500 formations at every turn have killed 400,000 Japanese and wounded countless people.
On May 7, 1945, Nazi Germany, which Japan relied on, surrendered unconditionally; on June 6, Japan’s military-political summit, under pressure from the military, decided to conduct a local decisive battle for all citizens; on July 16, the United States fought in New Mexico. The world’s first atomic bomb explosion test; on August 6th and 9th, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hit by two atomic bombs. At least 210,000 people were killed and 1.7 million Soviet troops stormed the Kwantung Army. Go", the US military intends to drop the third and final atomic bomb on Tokyo, and Japan promptly announced its unconditional surrender.
If it were not for the atomic bomb to make the Japanese military’s "100 million total jade fragments" meaningless, the number of casualties caused by conventional bombing and war would far exceed that of nuclear explosions, and the losses would be even more alarming. The logic of thinking that the nuclear explosion is inhumane is similar to that of Xiaosan who thinks he is more noble than ordinary sex workers, because the latter are retail, while they are wholesale. The absurdity of this logic lies in: killing 10,000 Japanese every day, killing a few years, killing hundreds or tens of millions, and killing them until it surrenders; if you kill 200,000 a day, even if it ends the war, avoid The death of tens of millions of people is also very inhumane.
According to incomplete statistics, in 5560 years of human history, there have been 14,531 wars of all sizes, an average of 2.6 times per year. Human beings are the most combative animals on the planet, because of their beliefs, resources, and even for a woman or a stone, they will go to war and blood will flow into rivers.
In Einstein's view, nuclear weapons are even a gift to mankind: "The effect of deterrence will win, and the development of international security will accelerate." Indeed, the atomic bomb has changed the way of thinking of mankind, forcing mankind who likes to use war to resolve conflicts to calm down. , Try to control and suppress the inherent greed, cruelty and combativeness, try to learn compromise, understanding and tolerance. This destructive weapon has unexpectedly become the patron saint of peace. The Cold War has never been "hot", and it has actually been "cold to death": there is no winner in the nuclear war, who dares to act rashly?
Slage was once very confused: "Why didn't they surrender?" The chief replied: "Because they are devils." In order to evade responsibility for defeat, the unreasonable evil group of the Japanese military did not hesitate to let minors act as cannon fodder, and there was no victory. It is hoped that the entire nation will also be tied to a chariot of dead ends. Without the atomic bomb, not only would the ending of World War II be unimaginable, I am afraid that World War III would have broken out long ago.
In 1969, the border war broke out between China and the Soviet Union. The Soviet military strongly demanded a preemptive strike and a nuclear strike against China. If the United States had not resolutely opposed it, China would have almost become Japan's second place. On December 7, 1988, Nagasaki Mayor Honjima and others bluntly said: "If the emperor makes a decision to end the war as soon as possible, Hiroshima and Nagasaki will not be bombed by atomic bombs." Received enthusiastic responses from citizens; January 18, 1990 , The island was shot for remarks that the emperor was responsible for war. The "Nagasaki Citizens' Association for Freedom of Speech" collected 380,000 signatures to support the island. In 2005, Hiroshima commemorated the 60th anniversary of the nuclear explosion. The Speaker of the Japanese House of Representatives Yohei Kono reminded the Japanese that before the nuclear explosion, Japan committed atrocities against Asian countries.
Freedom and peace are so precious that countless of the best children of mankind gave their lives for them. In the 65 years after World War II, and in the foreseeable future, even if mankind could not say goodbye to weapons, it was finally far away from the damn nuclear and world wars.
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