Author Kevin Black, who, according to this reprinted article from a newspaper, is a clinical psychologist who has lived in Hiroshima; the website itself is a provider of news and commentary for "progressive" issues.The story of a million American lives (and many more Japanese lives) saved by the A-bombs was a complete fabrication designed to eliminate public criticism of the president's decision.
Mr. Black says that critical thinking is, apparently, critical to accurately interpret the use of the atomic bombs in 1945. It would have also been somewhat helpful had Mr. Black provided some sort of proof to back up his statement quoted above.
As it is, this article makes a great many claims and assertions, none of which are presented with any evidence.
I think that in order to understand the use of atomic weapons, it is crucial to read the history of two crucial late Pacific War battles: Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and also the work on the Russian invasion of Manchuria and the US Strategic Bombing Survey for the Pacific.
It might be helpful to know that there were several estimates given on invasion of the Japanese home islands, and the ones often used to "prove" discrepancies were rejected and replaced later with far more grim estimates per potential US and Japanese casualities.
Whatever many may feel about the issue of using atomic bombs, this article is hardly helpful in providing illumination on the subject unless, of course, one's idea of "critical thinking" involves accepting in knee-jerk fashion Black's charges for which he offers zero evidence of their accuracy.
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