Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima: An Ironic Comparison

II. Dünya Savaşı gazileri, bu savaşın en önemli iki olayında halk hissiyatında büyük bir yer tutmuşlardır: 1941'deki Japonların Pearl Harbor ve Amerika'nın 1945'deki Hiroşima saldırılan. Bu çalışma, II. Dünya savaş döneminden itibaren bu iki saldırının Amerikan kamu oyunda bir benzeri olup olmadığını inceler. Bu karşılaştırmada; 1) Japon ve Amerikan saldırılarının amaçları; 2) bu saldırıların boyutları; 3) bu saldırıların şekli irdelenmektedir. Ancak, tam bir karşılaştırma yapmak olanaksızdır. İronik olarak, Amerika yeni küçük bir nükleer silah geliştirmeyi düşünürken, Japon hükümeti, Pearl Harbor saldırısında olduğu gibi, potansiyel Kuzey Kore saldırısı korkusuyla caydırıcı nükleer programı planlamaktadır.

Pearl Harbor ve Hiroşima: İronik Bir Karşılaştırma

In the past century, veterans of America's wars have shown extraordinary human longevity in the postwar eras. As a result, contemporary public historical interpretations of the American second, world war experience have been influenced by veterans' perceptions of historical issues for a longer time than was true of postwar eras before the twentieth centuiy. Public historical debates in the United States have recently focused on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (194J) and the American attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945). These events may seem quite dated by now, but they have remarkable contemporary resonance in light of debates over proliferation of nuclear weapons and tactics of so-called pre-emptive warfare. Though the aerial attacks are often related in popular American perception, the truth is they were incommensurate events in terms of their military and political objectives, their physical scale and results, and the natures of their targets.

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