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This 11 page paper evaluates how the dropping of the atomic bomb was viewed in the 1940s and then again fifty years later . Differences in reporting as well as ideology are discussed. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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an insurance policy they may never use or an item from a high pressure salesman because it sounds good at the time. They go about their daily lives, watch the
news, wonder about the potential war in the Middle East, but rarely think of the devastation caused by military actions. They may say "We need the oil," or that if
we do not get "them" first, we will perish. Many of the people who contemplate the impending war are not of the World War II generation. Some are, of course,
and remember what happened when the U.S. dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, but many are much younger and have only known relative peace. Of course, there had been bias then
too. There was a rallying of support for the U.S. and is was only after many years had passed and new documents were available to the public that the
truth came out. Just as in Gulf War days people believed that little children were being thrown out of hospitals, there is always some propaganda during times of war. It
takes journalists plunging through papers, gathering new information, uncovering things which were hidden, that forces truth out. Hence, when evaluating Hiroshima and what really happened, there are different perspectives to
emanate. When one looks at information from the decade and when one looks at information to come out about fifty years later, there are fundamental differences. In reviewing contemporary assessments
against later historical analyses, one sees a change in ideas. It was not that Hiroshima was taken lightly in the forties, but people lived through it. They survived. The economy
had been better than it had in quite awhile and there was a sense of shock in some way. They admitted to complacency before the bomb was dropped, and fifty
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