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"Nobody is more disturbed," said Leader Truman, three days after the damage of Nagasaki in 1945, "over the utilization of the atomic bombs than I am, but I got greatly disturbed in the unwarranted invasion by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our own prisoners of war. The only terms [the Japanese] seem to comprehend is the one we have been using to bombard them. When you yourself have to deal with a beast you have to take care of him as a beast. It is most regrettable but still true." The atomic bombs lowered on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 instantly, typically women, children, and the elderly. Many thousands more succumbed with their horrific accidents later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. The bombs were "our least abhorrent choice", American market leaders claimed at the time - but still today most people believe they finished the Pacific War and saved an incredible number of North american and Japanese lives. Ham issues this view, arguing that the bombings, when Japan was on its legs, were the culmination of any proper Allied air war on enemy civilians that started in Germany and experienced till then exacted its most horrific loss of life tolls in Dresden and Tokyo. The war in European countries may have finished but it continuing in the Pacific against a plan still seeking to save face. Ham details the politics manoeuvring and the methodical race to build the new atomic tool. He also gives powerful witness to its damage through the eyes of 80 survivors, from 12-year-olds obligated to work in war factories to wives and children who experienced it alone, reminding us these two locations were full of regular people who out of the blue, out of any clear blue summer's sky, thought the sun semester on their mind.
