https://consortiumnews.com/2023/08/09/atomic-bombings-were-needless-ww-iis-top-us-brass/
An excerpt:
Those who attack this mythology are often reflexively dismissed as unpatriotic, ill-informed or both. However, the most compelling witnesses against the conventional wisdom were patriots with a unique grasp on the state of affairs in August 1945 — America’s senior military leaders of World War II.
Let’s first hear what they had to say, and then examine key facts that led them to their little-publicized convictions:
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General Dwight Eisenhower on learning of the planned bombings: “I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and voiced to [Secretary of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of ‘face’.”
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Admiral William Leahy, Truman’s Chief of Staff: “The use of this barbarous weapon… was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.”
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Major General Curtis LeMay, 21st Bomber Command: “The war would have been over in two weeks without the Russians entering and without the atomic bomb… The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all.”
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General Hap Arnold, US Army Air Forces: “The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.” “It always appeared to us that, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse.”
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Ralph Bard, Under Secretary of the Navy: “The Japanese were ready for peace, and they already had approached the Russians and the Swiss…In my opinion, the Japanese war was really won before we ever used the atom bomb.”
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Brigadier General Carter Clarke, military intelligence officer who prepared summaries of intercepted cables for Truman: “When we didn’t need to do it, and we knew we didn’t need to do it…we used [Hiroshima and Nagasaki] as an experiment for two atomic bombs. Many other high-level military officers concurred.”
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Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, Pacific Fleet commander: “The use of atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender.”
Putting out feelers through third-party diplomatic channels, the Japanese were seeking to end the war weeks before the atomic bombings on August 6 and 9, 1945. Japan’s navy and air forces were decimated, and its homeland subjected to a sea blockade and allied bombing carried out against little resistance.
. . . We like to think of our system as one in which the supremacy of civilian leaders acts as a rational, moderating force on military decisions. The needless atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — against the wishes of World War II’s most revered military leaders — tells us otherwise.
Embrace of Sinister Principle
Sadly, the destructive effects of the Hiroshima myth aren’t confined to Americans’ understanding of events in August 1945. “There are hints and notes of the Hiroshima myth that persist all through modern times,” State Department whistleblower and author Peter Van Buren said on “The Scott Horton Show”.
The Hiroshima myth fosters a depraved indifference to civilian casualties associated with U.S. actions abroad, whether it is women and children slaughtered in a drone strike in Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands dead in an unwarranted invasion of Iraq, or a baby who dies for lack of imported medicine in US-sanctioned Iran.
Ultimately, to embrace the Hiroshima myth is to embrace a truly sinister principle: That, in the correct circumstances, it is right for governments to intentionally harm innocent civilians. Whether the harm is inflicted by bombs or sanctions, it is a philosophy that mirrors the morality of al Qaeda.
Sorry, but I don't buy the whole "atomic weapons don't exist" idea.
They do, as do nuclear power plants.
If I misunderstood your comment, please let me know.
Have you looked into it? I am convinced it's as fake as any of the other psyops- Sandy Hook, Parkland, etc., i.e., a bit of reality to create an immense illusion. As far as the power plants, you can look up Galen Winsor on rumble as to his experience building them.
I have a geiger counter -- they function as advertised -- and I'm pretty clear on the physics involved. I have read a good deal about nuclear power plants and am horrified at the severe, global problem of nuclear waste -- which would not exist were it not for nuclear weapons, power plants, medical uses, and so on. The mental contortions required to view nuclear weapons and power plants as functioning via some OTHER mechanism never made sense to me and still doesn't.
For instance: nuclear subs can operate submerged for FAR longer than diesel subs. What's being used to make that possible, if not nuclear fusion (to create heat to generate electricity)?
A power plant and a bomb are different things.
Regardless of the details, power plants obviously produce electricity. I don't believe the danger is as advertised. Galen Winsor offers his testimony as to how this deception occurred; it seems reasonable to me. I have yet to see evidence of mutations or birth defects from 3-Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima. In Fukushima, they ran the Olympic torch relay. The stories of danger are simply inconsistent, and Mr Winsor's explanations make more sense.
As far as bombs are concerned, it is simply a question of investigation. Nagasaki and Hiroshima do not have higher cancer levels than the rest of Japan nor did they have lower birth rates nor mutations; they are thriving cities without dead zones. We are told that a nuclear bomb causes a chain reaction that releases energy, but I haven't heard how or why the chain reaction simultaneously ceases. Then we have the fact that, despite the many terrorist organizations and unhinged tyrants in the world over the last 80 years, none have managed to steal, hack, recreate, or detonate anything remotely close to the bombs we are told to fear. The existence of suitcase nukes in the media and lost nuclear weapons from the fall of the USSR, and ever-increasing damage capabilities, combined with the fact that no other atomic bombs have been used, continues to stretch credibility. After looking at alternate theories, I believe that atomic bombs are a psyop.
But definitely investigate on your own.
Here's a collection of video clips of nuclear test blasts. Plenty of other such videos exist.
They were taken decades ago, before modern special effects. I'm old enough to have seen most of them in the '50s and '60s; they're real. And they're NOT anything that could be duplicated by chemical explosives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWQ5KnP2W3k
Enjoy.
Regarding the chain reaction - it really isn’t very different than any other explosive. It is a chain reaction involving the fissile nuclear material. The chain reaction relies on two factors 1) the density of the material and 2) the amount of material. The explosion both uses up material and spreads out unused material. That’s why the reaction stops.
It really is no different than how gunpowder works. If you compact it down into a small space, increasing the density, then start a chain reaction (with a percussion cap), the reaction spreads through the available material until it is used up. You haven’t ever wondered why when you fire a gun the reaction doesn’t go on forever, have you?
Likewise if you were to spread the gun powder out over a large area, you couldn’t set of an explosion with it. Same principle holds true for the nuclear material.
The difference between nuclear power plants and nuclear bombs is only a matter of power plants carefully controlling the rate of fission. Bombs release energy almost instantly; power plants release it over a much longer period, and do so with graphite rods carefully placed and adjusted to control the rate of fission.
Cancer and other harm: Yes, people died of radiation poisoning after the Japanese bombings. Yes, the cities are inhabited now; the levels of radiation are no longer of any real concern. FYI, there is still detectable and in some areas dangerous radiation from the Fukushima disaster in the areas surrounding that plant.
As for chernobyl:
~ Dr. Chris Busby, Deconstructing Nuclear Experts, March 2011
Also:
British Journal of Radiology published Rationale for using multiple antioxidants in protecting humans against low doses of ionizing radiation in 2005 (with 85 references). It includes, among other things, the following information:
You said "I haven't heard how or why the chain reaction simultaneously ceases" --
It DOESN'T, which is why radioactive (and chemically poisonous as well) waste is an issue from power plants, uranium mining and processing, etc. Depleted uranium is less radioactive than new rods used in power plants but still radioactive enough to be a health hazard to soldiers and civilians alike in areas where DU is used.
As for why the chain reactions in bombs cease, it's because the materials are no longer compressed together in tight contact, which is necessary for the chain reaction to continue. Only a small amount can fission before that happens.
The reactors on subs use fission, not fusion.
Thanks! I knew that -- NOTHING uses fusion yet (so far as I know), other than the sun and stars -- but my brain glitched.