Hiroshima

By Felicity Arbuthnot | Dissident Voice | August 7, 2016 Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. — J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb”, quoting from the Bhagavad Gita, after the explosion of the first atomic bomb, New Mexico, July 16, 1945 When Paul Tibbets was thirteen years old he flew […]

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb”, quoting from the Bhagavad Gita, after the explosion of the first atomic bomb, New Mexico, July 16, 1945

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
— Franz Kafka, Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922

A dark secret behind the Hiroshima bomb is where the uranium came from, a spy-vs.-spy race to secure naturally enriched uranium from Congo to fuel the Manhattan Project and keep the rare mineral out of Nazi hands, reports Joe Lauria.…Read more →

By Diana Johnstone | CounterPunch | August 5, 2016 On his visit to Hiroshima last May, Obama did not, as some had vainly hoped he might, apologize for the August 6, 1945 atomic bombing of the city. Instead he gave a high-sounding speech against war. He did this as he was waging ongoing drone war […]

On se permet, dans nos medias, de comparer  le « crime d’Auschwitz » au « crime d’Hiroshima ». Je remercie le correspondant qui s’en indigne et m’envoie les deux photos qu’on trouvera ci-dessous. L’une de ces photos nous montre un Japonais irradié et l’autre, Simone Veil dans toute sa gloire. Celle du Japonais peut prouver que le bombardement atomique d’Hiroshima (ou de Nagasaki) a bien eu lieu.

By Peter Van Buren | We Meant Well | May 31, 2016 On May 27, Barack Obama  became the first sitting American president to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, the site of the world’s first atomic bombing. Though highly photogenic, the visit was otherwise one that avoided acknowledging the true history of the place. Like […]

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I have recently posted a piece in which I tried to debunk a few popular myths about modern warfare. Judging by many comments which I received in response to this post, I have to say that the myths in question are still alive and well and that I clearly failed to convince many readers.

Barack Obama became the first U.S. President to visit Hiroshima on Friday, more than seven decades after the U.S. B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped a 10,000-pound atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” on the city whose military value was far less than that of Tampa to the United States. More than 70,000 people were instantly killed, and virtually the entire city was flattened. Many survivors would suffer prolonged and unimaginably painful aftereffects of radiation, which would cost at least 100,000 more people their lives.