An Apology

We have been really lucky in having had a teacher like Sir. Mr. Lobo.
Even today, he corrects our mistakes, although he lives on the other side of the globe.

Re: My article of 7th August,relevant portion is given below.


"Very few men have the guts to take an unpleasant decision which will benefit mankind.
Freddie Roosevelt took the unpleasant decision to drop the Atom Bombs in Japan which abruptly ended the second world war. If he had not used them, the war would have continued for many for years, with many millions of deaths and probably India would have been under either German or Japanese occupation. Not a very pleasant thought."

He has corrected me thus.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks at the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman on August 6 and 9, 1945. After six months of intense firebombing of 67 other Japanese cities, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on Monday], August 6, 1945, followed on August 9 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. These are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.

The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945, roughly half on the days of the bombings. Since then, thousands more have died from injuries or illness attributed to exposure to radiation released by the bombs. In both cities, the overwhelming majority of the dead were civilians.

Six days after the detonation over Nagasaki, on August 15, Japan announced its surrender to the Allied Powers, signing the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, officially ending the Pacific War and therefore World War II. (Germany had signed its Instrument of Surrender on May 7, ending the war in Europe.) and the Japan was battered,as we used to say,"Kicking a Dead Donkey"

I correct myself.

It was not Freddie Roosevelt who ordered the dropping of the Atom bombs. He was instrumental in authorising the production
Harry Trueman gave the order to use them
Further, the Germans had surrendered on May 7.
After six days intense firebombings bombing of 67 Japanese cites, they used the Atom Bomb as testing ground as they used the new intelligent bombs in Iraq.
I sincerely regret my error because of incomplete information.
The Americans were completely wrong in using the atom bomb.
I apologise to my Japanese and German friends for having made the remark

Well, I was wrong and my knuckles have been hit, I don't mind.
Rather, thank you, sir.

Radheshyam