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Lamar W. Hankins :
Propaganda and the atomic bomb 70 years later


The government, with the cooperation and collaboration of the media, used propaganda to justify the use of atomic bombs against Japan.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945, and, at right, the bombing of Nagasaki three days later. Image from Wikimedia Commons.
By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | August 6, 2015
I was only nine months old when two atomic bombs killed about 210,000 men, women, and children — the first at Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and the second at Nagasaki on August 9.
I have had discussions with soldiers and sailors who were fighting for the U.S. in the Pacific Theater during World War II. All of them held the view promoted by the government and most media in 1945 and thereafter that using atomic bombs was necessary to prevent the loss of 46,000 American lives (a worse case estimate made by military authorities) if the U.S. invaded Japan to end the war. This was and has been over the years the view of most Americans.
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