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Aspects of inconvenient history:

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The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place on August 6 and 9 1945, in spite of the fact that Japan had signalled her willingness to capitulate some weeks previously (Robert Junck Brighter than a Thousand Suns (1958) pp. 189-191, Martin J Sherwin A World Destroyed (1975) pp. 235-237).

To summarize the sequence of the important dates concerning the atomic bombing:

Mid-July 1945: Japanese government communicates to US government their willingness to negotiate capitulation;

August 6 1945: US drops atom bomb on Hiroshima;

August 8 1945: US signs the 'London Charter', or Charter of the International Military Tribunal defining war crimes, including Principle 6 (b) ‘wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.’

August 9 1945: US drops atom bomb on Nagasaki.

With reference to the atomic bomb, Admiral William Leahy - Chief of Staff to both Roosevelt and Truman - commented, 'My own feeling was that, in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Age. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.' (Liddell Hart, History of the Second World War (1970) p725-6, JFC Fuller, The Decisive Battles of the Western World, 1792-1945 (1970) p584). Awkwardly enough, for the sake of judicial impartiality, Churchill and Truman should themselves have been executed at Nuremberg for these undoubted crimes. In addition to finding ways to justify their own conduct, Britain and the US also needed to distract attention from two other aspects.

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