Can you add to my list of important people who were against dropping the A-Bomb on Japan

Question

~~~DWIGHT EISENHOWER

In a Newsweek interview, Eisenhower again recalled the meeting with Stimson:

"...the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing."

- Ike on Ike, Newsweek, 11/11/63

~~~ADMIRAL WILLIAM D. LEAHY

(Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman)

~~~HERBERT HOOVER

~~~GENERAL DOUGLAS MacARTHUR

~~~JOSEPH GREW

(Under Sec. of State)

~~~JOHN McCLOY

(Assistant Sec. of War)

~~~RALPH BARD

(Under Sec. of the Navy)

~~~LEWIS STRAUSS

(Special Assistant to the Sec. of the Navy)

~~~PAUL NITZE

(Vice Chairman, U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey)

~~~ALBERT EINSTEIN

~~~LEO SZILARD

(The first scientist to conceive of how an atomic bomb might be made - 1933)

~~~ELLIS ZACHARIAS

(Deputy Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence)

~~~GENERAL CARL "TOOEY" SPAATZ

(In charge of Air Force operations in the Pacific)

~~~BRIGADIER GENERAL CARTER CLARKE

(The military intelligence officer in charge of preparing intercepted Japanese cables - the MAGIC summaries - for Truman and his advisors)

Answer 1

HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY SHOWA HIROHITO

(Emperor of Japan)

He lost a few hundred thousand of his subjects and later lost his divine right to rule under the post-war Japanese Constitution.  

Answer 2

In 1942, The first atomic pile, a sustained controllable nuclear chain reaction, came online in Chicago. Scientist and inventor Enrico Fermi remarked, "This will be remembered as the darkest day in history," referring to both the atomic pile and that day's announcement of n**i death camps operating in occupied Europe. Actually, most people have no knowledge of that day; they remember the ultimate achievement that began on that date - the atomic bomb.

On August 8, 1945, Albert Camus addressed the bombing of Hiroshima in an editorial in the French newspaper Combat:

"Mechanized civilization has just reached the ultimate stage of barbarism. In a near future, we will have to choose between mass suicide and intelligent use of scientific conquests[...] This can no longer be simply a prayer; it must become an order which goes upward from the peoples to the governments, an order to make a definitive choice between h**l and reason."

A number of scientists who worked on the bomb were against its use. Led by Dr. James Franck, seven scientists submitted a report to the Interim Committee (which advised the President) in May 1945, saying:

"If the United States were to be the first to release this new means of indiscriminate destruction upon mankind, she would sacrifice public support throughout the world, precipitate the race for armaments, and prejudice the possibility of reaching an international agreement on the future control of such weapons."

Other U.S. military officers who disagreed with the necessity of the bombings include General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (the Chief of Staff to the President), Brigadier General Carter Clarke (the military intelligence officer who prepared intercepted Japanese cables for U.S. officials),[63]

and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet.[64]

Answer 3

Think there might have been a lot of j**s...

But we will never know as they were gone in a Flash...LMAO

Answer 4

You are deluded (and they were) if you think that the Japanese had any intention of surrender after the way they defended Iwo Jima.

It even took a second nuke to convince them to give up. The first one wasnt horrific enough.

You will have to get a very long list of priviledged people before you can compete with the millions of soldiers and civilians who had either been killed, were being tortured, and were about to be killed by the Japanese had the war continued.  

I respect the wishes of one private soldier in Japanese captivity more than all your generals and politicians sage in their comfortable offices.    

Answer 5

The Emperor of Japan.

The Military leaders of Japan.

The n***s who escaped.

Stalin.  

IMO if they had not surrendered and we had MORE we should have kept dropping them until Japan surrendered.   But we only had two that we could use.  

Answer 6

It was an awful thing to do to those poor little j**s!  We should have

dropped Ice cream and cake on them in return for their all out deliberate attack on a Sunday morning, knowing all our soldiers were

either still alseep or just awakening and not expecting any company!

Talk about a sucker punch!.  At least the j**s were warned and wouldn't take heed!

Answer 7

~~~MORONS who were fine with the estimated million plus allied troops that would have been sacrificed by not doing so.