America's Atomic Attack at Hiroshima and Nagasaki : The Terrible Truth

So you've seen the pictures. And, for years you've swallowed US lies.

Well, we've got news for you.

This is the terrible truth - and it hurts - at least, it should do.

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The most enduring lie is that the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war in the Pacific and save lives.

"Even without the atomic bombing attacks," concluded the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of 1946, "air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion. Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that ... Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated."

The National Archives in Washington contain US government documents that chart Japanese peace overtures as early as 1943. None was pursued. A cable sent on May 5, 1945 by the German ambassador in Tokyo and intercepted by the US dispels any doubt that the Japanese were desperate to sue for peace, including "capitulation even if the terms were hard". Instead, the US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, told President Truman he was "fearful" that the US air force would have Japan so "bombed out" that the new weapon would not be able "to show its strength".

He later admitted that "no effort was made, and none was seriously considered, to achieve surrender merely in order not to have to use the bomb". His foreign policy colleagues were eager "to browbeat the Russians with the bomb held rather ostentatiously on our hip". General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project that made the bomb, testified: "There was never any illusion on my part that Russia was our enemy, and that the project was conducted on that basis."

The day after Hiroshima was obliterated, President Truman voiced his satisfaction with the "overwhelming success" of "the experiment".

Read the revolting rest, right here.

(Cross posted at 'appletree')

6th August 1945:The Day Civilisation Died ...

Surely, the horrors of the Japanese city of Hiroshima remain proof positive that civilisation, as our world had come to know it, died an absolutely indescribable death on a sunny August day, some 68 years ago.

So fuck you, "Fat Man." And fuck your bastard "Little Boy," too.



A mere four days after the horror of Hiroshima, the fate of a second city (Nagasaki), and it's entire civilian population, served to further prove our point.



So, today we unapologeticly post pictures of some shocking scenes, lest the world should ever forget.



And to think that even as we type there's a sizable number of despicable sub-humans amongst us, who still insist on shrieking in sicko-unison : "Nuke 'em!"



So, for all those who don't (or won't) remember, as well as any who never even knew, here's a little something from the BBC.

Surely, as brother and sister citizens of the 21st century we should all learn, inwardly digest and remember.

(Cross posted at 'appletree')