(back to american journalist)
A frightening quote giving another
reason for the atomic bombings comes from US Brigadier General Carter
Clarke, who was in charge of preparing intercepted Japanese cables for
Truman and his advisors:
So, if it wasn’t done solely in order to force Japan to surrender, why did Truman order the bombings? The answer seems obvious. Besides my own cynical – but most certainly realistic – view that the US government, having spent millions of tax dollars on the A-Bomb project, had to use the bombs in order to continue feeding the American military-industrial complex (and the Japanese happened to be the enemy at the time), I also would consider that the US used the bombs to scare the USSR. This is a most believable rationale; much more rational than the idea that the Japanese were suicidal fanatics – who suddenly weren’t after the surrender – or that the bombs saved a million US lives."When we didn’t need to do it, and we knew we didn’t need to do it, and they knew we didn’t need to do it, we used them as an experiment for two atomic bombs."