Hiroshima

A little friend used the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to describe my blog several days ago.

I beg to disagree - but there's really some truth in it.

You know what. Before 6th August 1945, the Japanese army was long on the verge of failure. Well, it was a little bit of luck of Uncle Sam at the Midway Island. But, by the summar of 1945, the naval force under Emperor Showa was essentially demolished; Iwo Jima and Okinawa were at the hands of the US army; Tokyo was paralyzed by repeated incendiary bombings.

Therefore, even if there was no Manhattan project, the result of the Pacific war would no doubt be the same - just that the failure of the Japanese army would be an enduring torture.

And, it may not be an entirely bad thing to see the collapse of the military government: Japanese people became more cohesive than ever, and they soon evolved to be a super-power of economy; Hiroshima is merely a small scar in their history.

PS. Don't worry. There is, as yet, no Nagasaki.