Thank God For the Atom Bomb: an Essay—Paul Fussell

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.