{"id":175182,"date":"2015-08-22T14:37:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=175182"},"modified":"2015-08-22T14:37:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T14:37:52","slug":"did-the-atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-really-end-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/did-the-atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-really-end-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Really End the War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Alexander Guzman<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\" target=\"_blank\">RINF<\/a>) &#8211;\u00a0<em>\u201cWar is peace\u201d<\/em> at least according to a Sid Miller, a Texas official for Department of Agriculture and former state representative posted a facebook comment suggesting that the atomic bombs dropped in two Japanese cities during World War II killing and permanently injuring tens of thousands of people should be used again, this time against the Muslim world according to RT news. The facebook post read <em>\u201cJapan Has Been at Peace with the U.S. Since August 9, 1945, It\u2019s Time we Made Peace with the Muslim World\u201d<\/em> with a picture of a mushroom cloud from an atomic explosion. RT News reported that<em> \u201cA Texas official will not apologize for a shared post on his Facebook page that insinuates an atomic bomb should be dropped on \u201cthe Muslim world.\u201d<\/em> Although the Department of Agriculture<em>\u201cclaimed he did not personally share the post\u201d<\/em> it has undoubtedly caused a backlash against Miller. Manny Garcia, the deputy executive director of the Texas Democratic Party released a statement and said <em>\u201cIt is unacceptable for Republican Sid Miller to be promoting such disgusting rhetoric. Sadly, this kind of racist, xenophobic hate speech qualifies you for higher office with Republicans\u2019 Tea Party fringe base\u201d<\/em> according to RT. The Associated Press said that Miller\u2019s post was removed on Monday. On April, 2015, <em>The Pew Research Center<\/em> published a survey regarding the U.S. military dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima with more than 140,000 casualties and Nagasaki with 70,000\u00a0casualties during World War II found that the <em>\u201cshare of Americans who believe the use of nuclear weapons was justified is now 56%, with 34% saying it was not.\u201d<\/em> The fact is that the bombing of the Japanese cities did not bring peace as The Telegraph, a British main-stream news source titled<em> \u2018Evidence that the atomic bomb did not win the war against Japan.\u2019<\/em> It stated the following:<\/p>\n<p><em>As an instance of dozens of pieces of evidence, intercepted diplomatic cables of July 12-13 1945 show that Japan\u2019s Emperor had intervened to attempt to end the war prior to the use of the atomic bombs. Subsequent intercepted cables showed Japan responding positively to a US offer of a surrender based on the Atlantic Charter as put forward in an official US government radio broadcast on July 21 1945.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In his memoirs, Admiral William D Leahy, the President\u2019s chief of staff and the top official at meetings of American and British chiefs of staff, minced few words, writing: \u201cThe use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sid Miller is not alone<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2013, a psychopath Republican and U.S. representative from California Duncan D. Hunter was quoted as saying on a C-Span interview <em>\u201cIf you have to hit Iran, you don\u2019t put American boots on the ground, you do it with tactical nuclear weapons and you set them back a decade or two or three.\u201d<\/em> Another psycho politician and Henry Kissinger worshipper is a Republican senator from Arizona John McCain who famously was quoted as saying <em>\u201cThat old, eh, that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran,\u201d<\/em> laughing with the crowd<em> \u201cBomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, anyway, ah \u2026\u201d<\/em> as the audience laughed with him. The Times of Israel reported in 2013 that American Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson had called for the U.S. to <em>\u201cdetonate a nuclear bomb in the Iranian desert to display toughness\u201d<\/em> at a conference at New York\u2019s Yeshiva University and said <em>\u201cWhat are we going to negotiate about?\u201d<\/em> concerning Iran\u2019s nuclear program at the time, Adelson continued:<\/p>\n<p><em>What I would say is, \u2018Listen. You see that desert out there, I want to show you something.\u2019 \u2026You pick up your cellphone and you call somewhere in Nebraska and you say, \u2018OK let it go.\u2019 And so there\u2019s an atomic weapon, goes over ballistic missiles, the middle of the desert, that doesn\u2019t hurt a soul. Maybe a couple of rattlesnakes, and scorpions, or whatever. And then you say, \u2018See? The next one is in the middle of Tehran.\u2019 So, we mean business<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Adelson\u2019s statement was absurd and idiotic. If the U.S. were to drop a nuclear bomb in Iran\u2019s dessert to show its \u201ctoughness\u201d would affect millions of people in the Middle East as a nuclear fallout or radioactive dust would spread throughout the region and beyond causing such illnesses as cancer. Findings by the Preparatory Commission for the<em>Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization<\/em> (CTBTO) regarding the Nevada test site where nuclear weapons testing took place in the desert areas in the state of Nevada:<\/p>\n<p><em>Between 1951 and 1958, around 100 nuclear weapons tests were conducted in the atmosphere at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). Located about 100 km northwest of Las Vegas, the NTS was larger than many small countries, offering some 3,500 square km of undisturbed land. The average yield for the atmospheric tests was 8.6 kilotons (kt). The fallout from the tests contained radionuclides and gases which were transported thousands of miles away from the NTS by winds. As a result, people living in the United States during these years were exposed to varying levels of radiation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Arab world including Israel would be exposed to the nuclear fallout in some point in time. Todd Smith, a political consultant\u00a0said that it is the\u00a0Islamic state, Iran and U.S. president Barack Obama (who actually made a <em>\u201cwillful decision\u201d<\/em> to support the Islamic state as former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael T. Flynn admitted) who need to apologize, not Miller. According to\u00a0RT News:<\/p>\n<p><em>Todd Smith, a political consultant for Miller, said he didn\u2019t know why the post was scrubbed. He added that Miller\u2019s critics should demand an apology from Islamic terrorists, Iran and US President Barack Obama. \u201cWe think those are all issues that deserve an apology and are much more serious than a thought-provoking Facebook post,\u201d Smith said<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Using nuclear weapons against the Middle East is absolute madness. It will ignite a war that would last for decades. A nuclear war against the Arab people will not bring peace; it will create hatred against the West.\u00a0\u00a0A message to Sid Miller, U.S. Representative Duncan D. Hunter, Sheldon Adelson and every other warmonger including the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu who want to use nuclear weapons against the Arab people, no one will win.<\/p>\n<p>History will reveal that Washington and Tel Aviv were the ultimate enemies of the human race and will be seen in the same light as the Nazi\u2019s, the pariah states that committed genocide against the Arab people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timothy<\/strong><strong> Alexander Guzman<\/strong><em><strong> runs <a href=\"http:\/\/silentcrownews.com\/wordpress\/?p=4277\" target=\"_blank\">Silent Crow News<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Alexander Guzman (RINF) &#8211;\u00a0\u201cWar is peace\u201d at least according to a Sid Miller, a Texas official for Department of Agriculture and former state representative posted a facebook comment suggesting that the atomic bombs dropped in two Japanese cities during World War II killing and permanently injuring tens of thousands of people should be used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-175182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}