Special Bombing Mission No. 13
{"Image DocumentName": "Special Bombing Mission No. 13", "Image ImageDescription": "\u2018When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the plane crew were silent. Captain Lewis uttered six words, My God, what have we done? Three days later another one fell on Nagasaki. About 152,000 were killed, many times more were wounded and burned, to die later. The next day Japan sued for peace.\u2019 In order to decide whether to use nuclear weapons, the US president appointed a committee: the military advisors favoured using them. top-level scientists said they could find no acceptable alternative to using them. other, equally able, scientists opposed their use. The committee decided that the lives saved by ending the war swiftly by using this weapon outweighed the lives destroyed by using it.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}