![]() Hitchock’s carefully researched 2018 The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s. My interest in the Eisenhower plaques took me to the Brighton and Rochester public libraries. Had the use of one tactical weapon led to the unleashing of strategic arsenals, the path in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial would not exist. Had one tactical weapon been used - perhaps in the 1958 stand off over Formosa between the United States and the People’s Republic of China - history would be drastically altered but still recognizable. Nonetheless the appearance of nuclear weapons - used or not - irrevocably changed human history.Īnd, of course, no other plaques tell of nuclear bombings. At the same time, had Little Boy and Big Boy not been dropped, the surrender of encircled Japan was inevitable. The August 6th and August 9th, 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and NagasakiĪlthough disputed as mentioned in the Nagasaki plaque, the bombings probably shortened the war and saved lives. ![]()
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