Thursday, August 04, 2005

Hiroshima Film Cover-up Exposed

"More recently, McGovern declared that Americans should have seen the damage wrought by the bomb. 'The main reason it was classified was ... because of the horror, the devastation,' he said. Because the footage shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was hidden for so long, the atomic bombings quickly sank, unconfronted and unresolved, into the deeper recesses of American awareness, as a costly nuclear arms race, and nuclear proliferation, accelerated." (Via UFO Reflections.)

And still we live in a nation where vehicles sport stickers advocating we "Bomb Mecca" and urging the patriotic to "Nuke the Bastards." This empathic vacuum, sick and absurd, is far more dangerous than the nuclear weapons themselves.

2 comments:

Kyle said...

Mac -

you wrote:
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"This empathic vacuum, sick and absurd, is far more dangerous than the nuclear weapons themselves."
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The truly sad thing is that we have been conditioned to believe that nukes can be used "for good" and that bombs can be "smart" and that strikes can be "surgical".

We were "protected" from the "real truth" in order to "protect" the "real truth".

I've already got the Tivo programmed...
:)

Thanks!

Kyle

RJU said...

>>"Historians have also demonstrated that Truman didn't even need to use the infamous "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" fission bombs on the Japanese cities."

I would say this is a very questionable reading of history. The Japanese were not ready to surrender when Hiroshima was attacked. From Wikipedia:

"After the Hiroshima atomic attack (and before the Nagasaki atomic attack), President Truman issued the following statement:

"It was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction that the ultimatum of July 26 was issued at Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum. If they do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air the likes of which has never been seen on this earth.""

Only after Nagasaki was attacked did the Japanese understand that the threat was real and that the U.S was prepared to carry it out, meaning they had no choice, but to surrender.

It seems to me that once we had the ability to make nuclear bombs, sooner or later someone would use them. I can't say that this justifies their use, but let us be thankful that since their power was demonstrated in Japan, the weapons have not been used again.

The coverup of the effects, talked about here seems somehow worse and to me inexplicable because it make the possibility of using the bombs again more likely. It would seem that making it widely known what the bombs could do, would only be to our advantage- no one would dare to challange us.