 | United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) - 1961 - 718 lapas
...the Japanese have seen what our atomic bomb can do. They can foresee what it will do in the future. The world will note that the first atomic bomb was...was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians. But that attack is only a warning of things to come.... | |
 | Avner Cohen, Steven Lee, Steven P. Lee - 1986 - 514 lapas
...announcement, which to my ear is different from their text. On the recording Truman says, "The world now knows that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base." 10. Milton Leitenberg, "Presidential Directive 59 and American Nuclear Weapons Targeting Policy," Journal... | |
 | Michael S. Sherry - 1987 - 482 lapas
...remained a fixture in his own defense of his actions. "The world will note," he stressed on August 9, "that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base," as if city and base were one and the same. True, in addressing his subordinates amid the Berlin crisis... | |
 | Cynthia Peters - 1992 - 454 lapas
...later, when the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Truman propagandized, "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was...was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians." In reality, the United States sacrificed tens of thousands... | |
 | Michael Palmer - 1995 - 226 lapas
...atomic bomb against Japan. What kind of argument is Truman employing? How far do you agree with him? The world will note that the first atomic bomb was...does not surrender, bombs will have to be dropped on her war industries and, unfortunately, thousands of civilian lives will be lost. I urge Japanese civilians... | |
 | Howard Zinn - 1997 - 676 lapas
...deception and self-deception that accompanied these atrocities was remarkable. Truman told the public, "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was...was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians." Even the possibility that American prisoners of war... | |
 | James Tunstead Burtchaell - 1998 - 356 lapas
...this deliberate, premeditated destruction was our least abhorrent choice. President Truman explained that "the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in the first instance to avoid, in so far as possible, the killing of civilians." But the official Bombing... | |
 | Manuel Castells - 1999 - 194 lapas
...ahead and, perhaps unnecessarily, bombing two highly populated Japanese cities. Truman said that " 'the world will note that the first atomic bomb was...was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.' It was a preposterous statement. Those 100,000 killed... | |
 | Howard Zinn - 2001 - 212 lapas
...deception and self-deception that accompanied these atrocities was remarkable. Truman told the public, "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was...was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians." Even the possibility that American prisoners of war... | |
 | John V. Denson - 2001 - 830 lapas
...doubtless was aware of this, so from time to time he advanced other pretexts. On August 9, 1945, he stated: "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was...was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians."89 This, however, is absurd. Pearl Harbor was a military... | |
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The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians. 
