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家园 【文摘】证词英文原文(最后一段)

网上没找到全文,据说在作者(Charles Sweeney 1920-2004)的著作《War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission》里有全文。

《Sweeney’s 1995 congressional testimony》

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The world is a better place because German and Japanese fascism failed to conquer. Japan and Germany are better places because we were benevolent in our victory. The youth of Japan and the United States, spared from further needless slaughter, went on to live and have families and grow old.

Today, millions of people in America and Japan are alive because we ended the war when we did. This is not to celebrate the use of atomic weapons. Quite the contrary. It is my fervent hope that my mission is the last such mission ever flown. But that does not mean that back in 1945, given the events of war and the recalcitrance of the enemy, President Truman was not obliged to use all of the weapons at his disposal to end the war.

Thank you all very much!

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