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Título: Hiroshima
and Nagasaki - 70 years ago the US 'elite' murdered 500,000 Japanese civilians
to 'send a warning' to Russia
Texto:
ImageBlackened bodies, mothers who couldn't recognize their charred children
and those still alive screaming with pain - these are horrific details the
survivors of nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki recall ahead of 70th
anniversary of the tragedy.
The US was the
first nation to use nuclear weapons against an enemy target when they dropped
atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World
War II on August 6 and 9, 1945.
More than 80,000
civilians died immediately as a result of the Hiroshima bomb - a device
nicknamed 'Little Boy' by the US Air Force - and other 80,000 were believed
killed in the Nagasaki attack by 'Fat Man'. Thousands died from radiation
sickness in the months and years following the blasts.
As of August 2014
the memorials in Hiroshima and Nagasaki list the names of more than 450,000
people who died in the tragedy: 292,325 in Hiroshima and 165,409 in Nagasaki.
Chiyoko Kuwabara,
a survivor of Hiroshima atomic bombing, told RT that she was only 13 years old
when the tragedy happened but the moments that changed her life forever still
"linger in her memory."
"There were
corpses all over the place and when a mother would walk looking for her kids
she sometimes would hear cries calling 'mom...mom...' But even if they look at
their children's faces they couldn't recognize them. It was the children who
recognize their mothers," Kuwabara said with tears in her eyes.
People like
Kuwabara are called Hibakusha in Japan - a term for those who were exposed to
radiation from the nuclear bombings.
Kuwabara led RT
team to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum which displays the horrors of the
atomic bombing of the city: the damages caused by the bomb as well as photos of
dying or dead people.
"It makes me
suffer to look at these pictures...Poor people...I think they all died,"
she says, looking at the photos.
Kuwabara told RT
that she feels disappointed by the current US administration of President
Barack Obama.
"He [Obama]
said he will reduce the nuclear weapons. Instead he is increasing it. Whatever
beautiful words or acts he does I think America is not acting with sincerity.
At least he should come to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and pay respects."
RT also spoke to
a survivor of atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Sumiteru Taniguchi, who back in
August 9, 1945 was delivering mail when a bomb fell on the city.
Image
Atomic bomb
victim Sumiteru Taniguchi shows his back which was severely burnt by the atomic
bomb next to a photo of him taken about half a year after the incident at his
home in Nagasaki
"I was 16
years old. Two kilometers from the epicenter I was walking and got the blast
from behind. I could see it was from behind the light I was thrown,"
Taniguchi told RT.
The heat from the
blast melted the skin on his back and left arm. The footage of his horrific
injuries has become iconic and Taniguchi is now a living symbol of the
suffering caused by the bombs.
The 86-year-old
said that after the explosion he stayed in hospital three years and seven
months and during his first year and nine months he was lying on his chest.
"My back was
completely burned to the bones. And parts of my body hardened and the ribs got
into my heart and lungs. It is very painful still today."
One more survivor
of the Nagasaki bombings, Sanae Ikeda, 82, recalls how he lost his brothers and
a sister in the tragedy.
"The
explosion took away the skin of my hand and I started to bleed. The light was
green and then I couldn't see anything."
In the middle of
the road Ikeda saw someone - "a charred human being walking," he
described to RT. He even couldn't figure out if it was a man or woman.
"Survivors
who were badly hurt had no place to escape so everyone went to soak into a
narrow stream of water running in the nearby."
Ikeda recalls horrible
moment he saw the body of his sister which was completely deformed by the
explosion.
Image
Japanese air raid
workers carry a victim of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima away from smoking ruins
in this August 6, 1945 file photo.
"I found
this body completely black, charred. I held it with my hands and it had no face
Then I found that the string or ribbon of the waist of her pants. The outer
part was all burned by the explosion, but inside the ribbon it was fine. I saw
the little flowers and I could tell that this was the body of my little
sister."
The bombings were
approved by then US President Harry S Truman, who repeatedly stated that
attacking Japan had saved lives on both sides.
"I think
that the bombs were believed at the time to be necessary. as General [George]
Marshall, who was head of the US military during the war said after the war,
'we didn't want to have to invade Japan,'" Richard Rhodes, an American
historian, journalist and author who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book 'The Making
of the Atomic Bomb', told RT.
"We knew we
would kill many Japanese, and many Americans would die as well," he added.
But according to
Peter Kuznick, professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies
Institute at American University, the atomic bomb "wasn't necessary at
all" to end the World War II.
"I think you
can't come to any other conclusion than the bomb wasn't necessary, the Soviet
invasion was going to end the war, and the US invasion was not going to begin
till November first, so we dropped the bomb on August 6 and 9 to avoid an
invasion that was not going to take place for three more months. Why do we do
it? Well you have to conclude that we wanted to do it."
He added that if
you look at the comments of US leaders at that time, "in fact, six or
seven 5-star admirals and generals who got their fifth star during the war
[WWII] are on record as saying that the bomb was either militarily unnecessary
morally reprehensible or both."
Título: USA
dropped atomic bombs on Japan to 'send a warning' to Russia
Texto: Image70
years after the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, the real reasons behind the decision still divide historians.
Recently declassified documents from the time suggest the nuclear strikes may
have been performed not out of military necessity but to intimidate the USSR.
RTD's Peter Scott travels to the two Japanese cities that were devastated by
the attacks, where he visits a victims' memorial and meets nuclear blast survivors
still haunted by their memories. He also interviews President Truman's
grandson, Clifton Truman Daniel, on the subject of his grandfather's
controversial legacy.
Watch the Russia
Today 28 minute documentary 'Atomic Message' below for details.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edfxrib8ul4
La bomba era innecesaria porque, por el bloqueo marítimo del General Mc. Arthur, Japón no podía fabricar casi nada e iba a colapsar en cuestión de semanas. Esto lo sabe casi todo el mundo menos los crédulos en las explicaciones de ciertas autoridades políticas y académicas que repiten, sin la más mínima cuota de sentido común, eso de que se tiró la bomba para "salvar vidas".
ResponderEliminarIncluso, se estaba negociando la rendición en Roma, a través del Papa.
La bomba se tiró porque era conveniente a las tendencias imperiales de aquel tiempo, y fue justificada de la misma forma que se justifican todas las atrocidades que hacen los imperios (las razones "humanitarias").
Stalin había pactado con los aliados que, una vez finiquitado el frente alemán, la URSS iba a entrar en guerra con Japón tres meses después.
ResponderEliminarAsí lo hizo y entre medio de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, desplegó 1.500.000 de hombres en la China ocupada por Japón, arrasando a las fuerzas contrarias en menos de dos semanas.
Si EEUU no hubiera tirado las bombas, quizá Japón hubiera sido un satélite soviético.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria