“The
absence of justice over Hiroshima and Nagasaki is due to America’s
refusal to admit the truth about its nuclear holocaust. That denial
is necessary because otherwise it would reveal the criminal nature of
US governments and their ongoing criminal prerogative to continue
using the threat of nuclear weapons to maintain global hegemony.”
“Nagasaki,
the second atomic bombing of Japan by the United States on August 9,
1945, was in many ways an even bigger crime. The US government had
three days to assess the devastating human horror of the first bomb
dropped on Hiroshima on the morning of August 6, in which some 70,000
civilians were incinerated.”
“Hardly
a building was left standing in the southern Japanese port city amid
humans vaporised or turned into charred jelly, yet the American
leaders went ahead with the second atomic bombing on the western city
of Nagasaki in which another 40,000 people were annihilated. In total
over the following year, the death toll would reach at least 200,000,
and many more again over subsequent decades from cancers and other
malignancies.”
“Both
attacks can be adjudged as premeditated mass murder – indeed acts
of genocide by any legal definition – that had little to do with
compelling Imperial Japan to surrender towards the end of the Pacific
War.”
“It is
documented by historians that the American and British wartime
leaders were well aware that Japan was seeking to surrender in early
1945 – not least because of the merciless firebombing by the
Western powers of the capital, Tokyo, and other Japanese cities,
where the death tolls would match those later incurred at Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.”
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