Thank God For the Atom Bomb: an Essay - Paul Fussell. Formats: AZW3, EPUB, MOBI. First published in The New Republic in 1981.
Tags: History, Japan, Military, Politics, US, WW2
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This is a very short "book" consisting of a just a single essay and an added foreword (by James Delingpole, but I added it, not him). There is full length book with a similar name: "Thank God for the Atom Bomb & Other Essays" (1990) IBSN 978-0345361356. This is not that book. If I ever find it, I will gladly upload it.
President Obama, during his May 2016 visit to Hiroshima, Japan, vowed not to "repeat the evil" - referring to the atomic bomb. He did not once mention that Japan brought the US into World War 2 with its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor - and the Japanese themselves are equally coy.
Paul Fussell, in this essay, removes the revisionist rose-colored spectacles, and as one who had skin in the game, tells a very different narrative to the one President Obama would have us believe