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Don T Whitewashing The Hiroshima Bombing Summary

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The article I read was Don’t Whitewash the Hiroshima Bombing the main idea of the article is the justification that took place in the time surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima. It is suggested that the American people did not know the total impact of nuclear weapons and viewed them as a necessity at this point in the war. Although, past leaders have decided to not look at the devastation as a learning experience but as a time period of history. The article sums up the main idea in one very good sentence, “America’s decisions on war, torture, rendition, and indefinite detention could be explained in character as the distasteful but necessary actions of fundamentally good people against fundamentally evil ones.” I sadly do agree with this statement
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