{"id":21376,"date":"2020-08-05T14:45:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T05:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/hiroshima-atomic-bomb-us-japan-history"},"modified":"2020-08-05T14:45:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T05:45:22","slug":"hiroshima-at-75-bitter-row-persists-over-us-decision-to-drop-the-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21376","title":{"rendered":"Hiroshima at 75: bitter row persists over US decision to drop the bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historians and military differ on whether 1945 bombing ended the war and saved countless lives \u2013 or was an unconscionable act of brutality<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-five years after it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/1945\/aug\/09\/japan.fromthearchive\">dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima<\/a>, the Enola Gay stands, restored and gleaming, as a museum exhibit close to Washington\u2019s Dulles airport.<\/p>\n<p>It was not always so well looked after. For decades after the war, the B-29 Superfortress bomber was left to rot. It was disassembled, its pieces were scattered, birds nested in its engines, and someone smashed its gun turret.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/hiroshima-atomic-bomb-us-japan-history\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historians and military differ on whether 1945 bombing ended the war and saved countless lives \u2013 or was an unconscionable act of brutalitySeventy-five years after it dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the Enola Gay stands, restored and gleaming, as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,441,220,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-nuclear-weapons","category-second-world-war","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21377,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21376\/revisions\/21377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}