The United States launched nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to demonstrate to the world, particularly to the Soviet Union, that they must obey the Empire’s demands in the future, an American activist and journalist says.
Mike Billington, the Asia editor for the Executive Intelligence Review, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Tuesday when asked what message the United States wanted to convey to the world when it nuked the two Japanese cities in the final days of WWII.
This week marks 71 years since the US carried out nuclear strikes against Hiroshima and Nagasaki which killed more than 200,000 people.
In May, US President Barack Obama visited Japan but failed to apologize over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“There was, as it is very well-known, absolutely no need of the nuclear bombing of Japan. They had already sued for peace through the Vatican,” Billington said.
“It was done entirely as a…