This myth is so pervasive and everpresent when you look into the atomic bombings. In high school when I was writing papers about it condemning the US for the mass murder of civilians, it was in part to be contrarian because most sources besides one website "The United States is the Largest Terrorist Organization on Earth" all were saying that a ground invasion would have met with the most bitter resistance from every man, woman, and child in Japan. In reality if you listen to any first hand accounts from the Japanese working class at the time, they were all sick and tired of the war and just wanted it over. If you look at what the Japanese government was doing at the time as well, you'll find that they were also desperately looking for a way out.
It's a cul-de-sac for looking at history. "We had to kill them because otherwise they would've killed more of their own killing ours," or "Communism works well on paper but fails when accounting for human nature." A myth created to stop people that might actually feel as though something might be wrong with the official narrative that gets repeated so often that it becomes nauseating to anyone that has since escaped the cul-de-sac but to the people within see it as this uncommon knowledge and hard to handle truth that they need to tell everyone about because nobody else has looked this hard at it.
Hiroshima defense is a fascinating glitch in the matrix because at the same time the “we just had to” stretching is going on there’s one of the few instances of American strategists being fully open for one of the few times in modern history by adding on to the end of the defense “and besides, we had to get Japan out early or else the Soviets would have gotten their surrender”
There's also the U.S. Strategic Bombing survey, a contemporary military/civilian research group that concluded the bombs were unnecessary and Japan would have surrendered imminently anyway.
It’s a denial of agency. It was a force of nature set in motion by the Japanese themselves that nuked those cities. The American forces were merely the hand of God settings things back in order and making things as they should be.
This myth is so pervasive and everpresent when you look into the atomic bombings. In high school when I was writing papers about it condemning the US for the mass murder of civilians, it was in part to be contrarian because most sources besides one website "The United States is the Largest Terrorist Organization on Earth" all were saying that a ground invasion would have met with the most bitter resistance from every man, woman, and child in Japan. In reality if you listen to any first hand accounts from the Japanese working class at the time, they were all sick and tired of the war and just wanted it over. If you look at what the Japanese government was doing at the time as well, you'll find that they were also desperately looking for a way out.
It's a cul-de-sac for looking at history. "We had to kill them because otherwise they would've killed more of their own killing ours," or "Communism works well on paper but fails when accounting for human nature." A myth created to stop people that might actually feel as though something might be wrong with the official narrative that gets repeated so often that it becomes nauseating to anyone that has since escaped the cul-de-sac but to the people within see it as this uncommon knowledge and hard to handle truth that they need to tell everyone about because nobody else has looked this hard at it.
Hiroshima defense is a fascinating glitch in the matrix because at the same time the “we just had to” stretching is going on there’s one of the few instances of American strategists being fully open for one of the few times in modern history by adding on to the end of the defense “and besides, we had to get Japan out early or else the Soviets would have gotten their surrender”
There's also the U.S. Strategic Bombing survey, a contemporary military/civilian research group that concluded the bombs were unnecessary and Japan would have surrendered imminently anyway.
It’s a denial of agency. It was a force of nature set in motion by the Japanese themselves that nuked those cities. The American forces were merely the hand of God settings things back in order and making things as they should be.