FYI, the vast majority of scholars who specialize in Japan's surrender agree that nuking Japan was not necessary and that Japan likely would have...
That's a curious question coming from someone whose reading clearly has been one-sided and incomplete. Yes, I've read the JCC volumes. Have you...
Nuking Japan was both barbaric and unnecessary. However, a big problem in discussing this issue is that it is hard to feel sorry for the Japanese...
No, it was not justified. Nuking Japan was unnecessary, and this view was shared by Eisenhower, MacArthur, Halsey, Clarke, and many other senior...
So Dewey, Halsey, Theobold, Smith, Richardson, etc., etc., all said that FDR knew Pearl Harbor would be attacked based only on "political...
Your dismissive attitude on this issue suggests that your reading has been very one-sided. A whole bunch of admirals, generals, and other senior...
The information was not acted on because FDR and other high officials made sure that Kimmel and Short did not receive it, and that no one who was...
I've cited several sources. Did you read the Villa-Wilford article or Wilford's book? I cited the FBI memos and told you where you can find them....
Again, no one is claiming that the Japanese "broadcast the plans for the raid." No one. What is being stated is that American, British, and Dutch...
Who "clarified" and "found irrelevant" Poorten's information? Did they deal with Thorpe's firsthand account and the fact that it corroborates...
"Total nonsense"??? Declassified memos that were never supposed to be released on information given to the FBI by the chief of Army G2...
No one is saying that Col. Bissell was talking about the operational plans themselves. He was saying that from Japanese intercepts they discerned...
Surely that's not how they were using "complete plans" in this context. Surely, obviously they did not mean to say that they had the Japanese...
I think one good website on the evidence of advance knowledge of Pearl Harbor is Tom Kimmel's The Story Within the Pearl Harbor Story website:...
