Pearl Harbor: awaken the giant

HISTORY

For a civil man , it is often difficult to understand the rationale of military strategy . To an ignorant on the subject as who writes , makes absolutely no sense the act in Japan during the Pearl Harbor attack . Except ... unless the official historical facts are hiding part of the story . Perhaps the Japanese already knew it was imminent entry of the United States into the war and its action was defensive , seeking to delay the American attack . Or maybe they were just crazy ... Again, apologize for my ignorance .

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military offensive conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the naval base of the United States at Pearl Harbor , Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 . The attack was intended as a preventive action taken to eliminate the intervention of the Pacific Fleet of the United States military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia perform against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States itself (or at least that's the official story ) .

The naval base was attacked by more than 300 Japanese aircraft including fighter jets , bombers and torpedo bombers that took off six portaaviones.Resultaron damaged eight U.S. battleships stationed in the port , and four of them were sunk . Of these eight , two were refloated and four repaired , so that six could re-enter service later in the war. The Japanese attack also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers , one minelayer and training ship . The Americans lost 188 aircraft , killed 2402 Americans and 1282 were injured in varying degrees . However, the Japanese attacked the power station, shipyard , maintenance facilities , fuel tanks and torpedoes , submarine docks and the building of the headquarters and the intelligence section . The Japanese lost 29 aircraft and five midget submarines , as well as military casualties suffered 65 killed and wounded . Also, a Japanese sailor was captured alive .

The attack deeply shocked American people and led directly to the U.S. entry into World War II in both theaters of war in Europe and the Pacific. The day after the attack , December 8 , the United States declared war on the Empire of Japan . Domestic support in North America to non- intervention in the global conflict , which had been strong , disappeared while clandestine assistance to the UK was replaced by a full alliance . Subsequent operations led the American nation that declared war Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on December 11 , which was reciprocated by the U.S. the next day.

There are numerous historical precedents for military attack without a declaration of war by Japan . However, the absence of a formal declaration by the Japanese while negotiations were taking place that seemed to prosper led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to qualify for the December 7, 1941 as "a date which will live in infamy ."

Manhattan Project: Planning the destruction of the human race

HISTORY

There is no worse fate for the human effort that creating weapons. Is it logical case that thousands of men, companies, governments and scientists pool forces to plan, prepare, recruit and deploy the annihilation of millions of people? Obviously enough proportion of people thought so. Millions of dollars and over two years of work focused on killing as many people as quickly as possible. The Manhattan Project, another mistake of the human species.
 
The Manhattan Project was the code name for a science project conducted during World War II by the United States with partial support from the UK and Canada. The ultimate goal of the project was the development of the first atomic bomb before Nazi Germany got it. The scientific research was directed by physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer while security and military operations were the responsibility of General Leslie Richard Groves. The project was carried out in numerous research centers being the most important of them the Manhattan Engineering District located in the place now known as Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The project brought together a large number of eminent scientists (physics, chemistry, computer science). Since, after testing in Germany before the war, it was known that atomic fission was possible and that the Nazis were already working on its own nuclear program met several brilliant minds who were also pacifists and leftists mostly. Many Jewish exiles, made ​​common cause in the struggle against fascism contributing their bit to the cause: get the bomb before the Germans. The first successful nuclear test occurred in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico.

IMAGES OF HIROSHIMA BEFORE (photo left) and AFTER EXPLOSION (right)