It was 80 years ago today…that we dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This is adapted from a post I wrote in 2016. Please forgive my anachronistic citation of Barrack Obama. He can stand in for proponents of the revisionism that threatens to obliterate historical reality. Richard Frank’s excellent column “The Atomic Bombing of Japan Was Justified” of this date is unfortunately behind NR’s paywall.
In the words of the Sam Cooke song, President Obama don’t know much about history. Here I cite my long post “Obama veers into the Daily Ditch,” discussing Obama’s almost unbelievably misguided discourse on Winston Churchill and World War II at his first presidential press conference. What Obama lacks in historical knowledge he makes up in the anti-American attitude of the old new left.
David Harsanyi notes that “The Obama administration is now apologizing for America winning World War II.” Paul Mirengoff took up a related point in “World War II death totals tell quite a story.”
In the video below Bill Whittle sought to correct the record regarding our dropping the bombs that ended Japan’s war on the United States in the Pacific during World War II. This is Bill’s most recent video on the subject.
Professor Williamson Murray is an eminent historian of World War II, emeritus of Ohio State. In the video below, Professor Murray gives the lecture “Preventing the most terrible of wars.” In the lecture he vindicates the reasoning that compelled the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
While we’re at it, please see Paul Fussell’s classic 1981 New Republic essay: “Thank God for the atom bomb.”
