a different history

[Mark Kohut]

I have been practically unable to read anything at all about the events. Not Hiroshima. 
Learning by existing what I have learned--and even seen about it--I, too, still am viscerally against it and must be forever now. 
But, I usually reserve the word terrorism for acts outside of declared war acts. The U.S. had declared war on Japan. 






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> On Aug 8, 2015, at 6:22 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It's a neat trick how 'terrorism' becomes 'demonstration of dominance'
> when the good guys push the button.
> 
>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Death is Lighter than a Feather
>> Westheimer, David
>> 
>> http://untpress.unt.edu/catalog/3060
>> 
>>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Wellerstein's an excellent historian of the nuclear weapons complex -- see
>>> his blog at http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/.
>>> 
>>> There's no knowing how long Japan might have withstood a blockade with
>>> Manchuria gone (and undoubtedly further Soviet advances or threats into
>>> northern China), but that alternative too would have been far from
>>> bloodless: see German health and mortality late in WWI, Leningrad and the
>>> 1944-45 "hunger winter" in the  Netherlands in WWII. Japanese nutrition was
>>> already hurting badly by mid-1945; unless and until the Emperor endorsed
>>> surrender, I can imagine hundreds of thousands of additional civilian deaths
>>> from malnutrition and disease.
>>> 
>>> That said, my 1960 reaction to reading 'Hiroshima' remains the same: like
>>> all the "strategic" bombing of cities from 1939 on, it was terrorism and it
>>> was wrong in any context -- as was the rationale for 70 years of nuclear
>>> weapons development and deployment.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> https://ideas.aeon.co/viewpoints/alex-wellerstein-on-what-options-were-there-for-the-united-states-regarding-the-atomic-bomb-in-1945
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