Fri, May
7
12-1:30am
Hiroshima: The Decision to Drop the Bomb
"An investigation, based on newly released documents, into President Truman's controversial decision to drop the A-bomb. Concludes that the real reason the U.S. dropped the bomb was to intimidate the Soviet Union."
Several 'experts' explained that dropping the A-bombs on Japan were unnecessary [there were no dissenting points of view aired]. The announcer -- bearing an English accent -- explained that the reasons that Truman decided to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki were:
1. A raving desire for revenge on the part of the American people. 2. To use the opportunity to 'experiment' the new weapon on an
expendable population. 3. To demonstrate to the USSR that
America is not to be messed with. 4. The bombs were unnecessary, because
the Japanese were about to surrender anyway.
