"Until now, the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were considered unforeseen surprise attacks. However, it has recently come to light that Japan detected American preparations prior to the attacks. The program examines developments on the Japanese side surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Why was the tragedy of the A-bomb repeated, even when Japan knew an attack was imminent?" Special Intelligence unit knew that the second bomber also used call sign V675 which only days earlier had destroyed Hiroshima, however, the Japanese fighter crew just 11 miles north of Nagasaki was never ordered to intercept the B-29 bomber which departed from Tinian island. Not even an air raid warning was issued to the inhabitants: 60% of Nagasaki was destroyed and approximately 70,000 people were killed. - Adriano

"Allied military leaders were appalled by the use of the atomic bombs. General Eisenhower recognized that Japan was ready to surrender and said, "It wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing." General Hap Arnold, commander of the U.S. Army Air Corps pointed out, "Atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse." Admiral William Leahy, Truman's chief of staff, said: "The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender. In being the first to use it, we adopted an ethical standard common to barbarians of the Dark Ages. Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children." What Truman had described as "the greatest thing in history" was actually, according to his own military leaders, an act of unparalleled cowardice, the mass annihilation of men, women and children." http://www.indepthnews.info/index... - Adriano

cf. the suppression of information by the Japanese government regarding the diffusion of radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster: http://nakamura-syounika.cocol... - Adriano