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Dear CCI Followers,
The 75th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is upon us —
August 6th and 9th. Regardless of how our nation has tried to gloss over this
greatest horror ever perpetrated on fellow human beings … the facts remain,
they happened.
The most devastating writing and photojournal I’ve seen about these bombings
arrived yesterday from Consortium News. It is a patchwork of print media and
actual photos (banned at the time) of the two cities in the wake of being hit
by the two A Bombs. At the time, our leaders tried to minimize the horrific
numbers of deaths and suffering unleashed on ordinary Japanese people.
It behooves us to ponder deeply the magnitude of this crime. It is our history.
In ensuing years it has been rumored that the Japanese knew they had lost the
war, that WW2 was all but over, and that the Japanese emperor was preparing
treaties to end the war. If you know that these claims are untrue or true,
please let us know. If true, the issue needs to be cleared up once and for all
times.
PLEASE, take the time to scan this piece—click on the following:
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Consortium News
It is particularly timely since our leaders today are marching us straight up
to the edge of a Nuclear War by refusing to sign treaties and forgoing
diplomacy to reduce the likelihood of nuclear war.
Join us at CCI in pushing our newspapers, journalists, local politicians, our
physicians, our current President … to lead by signing agreements, treaties, or
whatever is necessary.
Who knows what might happen if an accidental U.S. or Russian nuclear bomb is
detonated from one of the hundreds of submarines or bombers in flight patterns
at any given time? You might ask: Why are nuclear bombs in these submarines and
planes? To get the edge on a "first strike”, we are told.
We owe it to ourselves to be informed about what one small nuclear weapon can
do to a major city. Would we want to see Washington DC, New York, or San
Francisco obliterated … or St. Petersburg, Moscow or Yalta?
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Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
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Consortium News
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 75: Hiroshima Cover-up — How Timesman Won a Pulitzer While
on War Dept. Payroll
August 4, 2020
By Amy Goodman and David Goodman
At the dawn of the nuclear age, an independent Australian journalist named
Wilfred Burchett traveled to Japan to cover the aftermath of the atomic bombing
of Hiroshima. The only problem was that General Douglas MacArthur had declared
southern Japan off-limits, barring the press. Over 200,000 people died in the
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but no Western journalist witnessed
the aftermath and told the story. The world’s media obediently crowded onto the
USS Missouri off the coast of Japan to cover the surrender of the Japanese.
Wilfred Burchett decided to strike out on his own. He was determined to see for
himself what this nuclear bomb had done, to understand what this vaunted new
weapon was all about. So he boarded a train and traveled for thirty hours to
the city of Hiroshima in defiance of Gen. MacArthur’s orders.
Burchett emerged from the train into a nightmare world. The devastation that
confronted him was unlike any he had ever seen during the war. The city of
Hiroshima, with a population of 350,000, had been razed. Multistory buildings
were reduced to charred posts. He saw people’s shadows seared into walls and
sidewalks. He met people with their skin melting off. In the hospital, he saw
patients with purple skin hemorrhages, gangrene, fever, and rapid hair loss.
Burchett was among the first to witness and describe radiation sickness.
Burchett sat down on a chunk of rubble with his Baby Hermes typewriter. His
<https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/wilfred-burchett-atomic-plague-99732/>
dispatch began:
“In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and
shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who
were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only
describe as the atomic plague.”
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