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1945年8月6日，杜鲁门总统向全国发表"核爆"Hiroshima 讲话
2021年，亨利 杜鲁门被评为排列第六位的美国最伟大的总统
十六小时前，一架美国飞机在日本重要的陆军基地广岛投下了一枚炸弹。 那枚炸弹的威力比 20,000 吨 T.N.T. 还要大。 它的爆炸威力是英国“大满贯”炸弹的两千多倍，是战争史上迄今为止使用过的威力最大炸弹。
自从日本人在珍珠港不宣而战发动了战争。 他们已经付出了数倍的代价。 最终结局还没有到来。 现在，有了这类炸弹，我们有了新的革命性打击力量，更加扩展了我们武装部队实力。 这些炸弹目前正在生产中，威力更强的正在开发之中。
它是一颗原子弹。 这是对宇宙基本力量的利用。 它已经被释放出来如太阳一般的能量，并用来对付那些给远东带来战争的日本人。
1939年之前，科学家们理论上普遍相信原子能， 但没有人知道任何可行的方法。 然而，到了 1942 年，我们知道德国人正在疯狂地寻找这种方法，将原子能添加到他们希望用来奴役世界的战争引擎中，但他们失败了。 我们要感谢普罗维登斯，德国人很晚且数量有限地开发了 V-1 和 V-2，更感谢他们根本没有获得原子弹。
实验室之工作和海陆空之战一样，对我们来说都是致命的风险，而我们现在已经赢得了实验室之成功，就像我们赢得了其他战斗一样。
从 1940 年珍珠港事件爆发之前开始，美国和英国就在战争中共享了有用的科学知识，这种安排为我们的胜利提供了许多无价的帮助。 在这一总方针下，原子弹的研究开始了， 在美国和英国科学家的共同努力下，我们当时与德国人的进行了竞赛。
美国在许多所需的知识领域拥有大量杰出的科学家。 它拥有该项目所需的巨大工业和财力，它们投入到该项目中，而不会过度损害其他重要的战争工作。 在美国，实验室工作和生产工厂已经有了实质性的启动，且敌方无法进行空袭，而当时的英国则不断受到空袭，仍然面临着可能的威胁， 入侵。 出于这些原因，丘吉尔首相和罗斯福总统一致认为在这里进行该项目是明智的。 我们现在有两个大型工厂和许多较小的工厂致力于生产原子能。 施工高峰期就业人数为 125,000 人，现在仍有超过 65,000 人参与工厂运营。 许多人已经在那里工作了两年半。 很少有人知道他们生产了什么， 他们看到大量物质投入，但没有看到任何东西从这些工厂中出来，因为炸药的物理尺寸非常小， 我们花费了 20 亿美元进行了历史上最大的科学赌博，并且赢了。
但最伟大的奇迹不是企业的规模、其保密性或成本，而是科学大脑将不同科学领域的许多人掌握的无限复杂的知识组合成一个可行的计划所取得的成就。 同样令人惊叹的是工业的设计能力、劳动的操作能力、这些设备和方法完成了以前从未做过的事情，从而按照预期的时间方式得以执行 。 科学研发和工业生产在美国陆军的指导下工作，美国陆军在令人惊讶的短时间内解决了知识开发中多样化的问题，并得了巨大的成功。 世界上是否还能出现这样得奇迹值得怀疑， 这一切是历史上有组织的科学的最伟大成就。 这是在高压下完成的，没有失败。
我们现在准备进一步加速、并更彻底地消灭日本人在任何城市的每一个生产企业。 我们将摧毁他们的码头、工厂和通讯设施。 他们不要有任何幻想； 我们将彻底摧毁日本的战争力量。
7月26日在波茨坦发出的（无条件投降)的最后通牒是为了让日本人免遭彻底毁灭。 而他们的领导人拒绝了这一最后通牒。 如果他们现在不接受我们的条件，等待他们de将是从空中降下一场毁灭性之暴风骤雨，这种剧烈程度是空前的。 紧接着空中打击将是海陆军力量的进攻，其数量和规模是前所未见的，其作战技巧也是他们已经熟知的。
战争部部长一直参与该项目的各个阶段，他将立即发表声明，提供更多细节。。。。。
自1931年9月18日开始到1945年9月2日结束，由日本军国主义分子和德国，意大利法西斯分子发起的第二次世界大战是人类历史上迄今为止最血腥最残酷的战争，战争范围从欧洲到亚洲，从大西洋到太平洋，先后有60个国家和地区，20亿人口被卷入战争。
中国人民在这场浩劫中付出了空前的民族牺牲，中国死亡人数约为1800万人,其中军人占35%。另外加上因为战争造成的伤病者,中国伤亡人数超过了3500万人。其中包括大部分平民是被日军屠杀和虐杀而死。
但是，日本死亡290万，伤残400万，伤亡合计690万，本土除了轰炸东京和原子弹袭击，几乎没什么平民伤亡。
以史为镜 以史为鉴 以史为师。前事不忘，后事之师。二战结束后， 战败国日本在战胜国美国的监督下制定了“和平宪法”，世界尤其是亚洲地区因此而基本保持了70多年的和平安定。而日本国内总有一股暗流，尤其是最近十数年，某些势力试图突破其执行的长期“和平宪法”，妄想恢复成为所谓的”正常国家“，同时这些家伙又通过各种手段，妄图把自己从二战的侵略国变成受害国，这怎么不让深受其害的全世界，尤其是亚洲和远东各国忧虑和警惕啊。
全世界爱好和平和正义的人们呼吁日本当局吸取第二次世界大战给全人类带来的浩劫，继续持守“和平宪法“，坚持走和平发展的道路。
那样不但是世界人民的幸事，同样这又何尝不是：从小就喝日本咖啡，吃日本寿司，坐惯中国制造de日本马桶，哼日本小调的日本人民幸事，不是吗？
他们的名字也许无人知道，他们的伟绩永世长存
We might not know their names, but their legacy lives on
多行不义 必自毙
Truman informs the nation that an atomic weapon has been detonated in Japan.
August 6, 1945
THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington, D.C.
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.
The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many fold. And the end is not yet. With this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of our armed forces. In their present form these bombs are now in production and even more powerful forms are in development.
It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
Before 1939, it was the accepted belief of scientists that it was theoretically possible to release atomic energy. But no one knew any practical method of doing it. By 1942, however, we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world. But they failed. We may be grateful to Providence that the Germans got the V-1's and V-2's late and in limited quantities and even more grateful that they did not get the atomic bomb at all.
The batle of the laboratories held fateful risks for us as well as the battles of the air, land, and sea, and we have now won the battle of the laboratories as we have won the other battles.
Beginning in 1940, before Pearl Harbor, scientific knowledge useful in was pooled between the United States and Great Britain, and many priceless helps to our victories have come from that arrangement. Under that general policy the research on the atomic bomb was begun. With American and British scientists working together we entered the race of discovery against the Germans.
The United States had available the large number of scientists of distinction in the many needed areas of knowledge. It had the tremendous industrial and financial resources necessary for the project and they could be devoted to it without undue impairment of other vital war work. In the United States the laboratory work and the production plants, on which a substantial start had already been made, would be out of reach of enemy bombing, while at that time Britain was exposed to constant air attack and was still threatened with the possibility of invasion. For these reasons Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt agreed that it was wise to carry on the project here. We now have two great plants and many lesser works devoted to the production of atomic power. Employment during peak construction numbered 125,000 and over 65,000 individuals are even now engaged in operating the plants. Many have worked there for two and a half years. Few know what they have been producing. They see great quantities of material going in and they see nothing coming out of these plants, for the physical size of the explosive charge is exceedingly small. We have spent two billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history -- and won.
But the greatest marvel is not the size of the enterprise, its secrecy, nor its cost, but the achievement of scientific brains in putting together infinitely complex pieces of knowledge held by many men in different fields of science into a workable plan. And hardly less marvelous has been the capacity of industry to design and of labor to operate, the machines and methods to do things never done before so that the brainchild of many minds came forth in physical shape and performed as it was supposed to do. Both science and industry worked under the direction of the United States Army, which achieved a unique success in managing so diverse a problem in the advancement of knowledge in an amazingly short time. It is doubtful if such another combination could be got together in the world. What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history. It was done under pressure and without failure.
We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city. We shall destroy their docks, their factories, and their communications. Let there be no mistake; we shall completely destroy Japan's power to make war.
It was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction that the ultimatum of July 26 was issued at Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum. If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth. Behind this air attack will follow sea and land forces in such number that and power as they have not yet seen and with the fighting skill of which they are already well aware.
The Secretary of War, who has kept in personal touch with all phases of the project, will immediately make public a statement giving further details.
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