Tag: Harry S. Truman

Today the Threat of Nuclear War is Real: America’s 1945 Plan: “Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map”, 204 Atomic Bombs against 66 Major Cities, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned During World War II

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Prof Michel Chossudovsky First published November 4, 2017. *** Author’s Note and Update   The World is at a Dangerous Crossroads.  Nuclear war threatens the future of humanity. We are no longer dealing with a hypothetical scenario. The threat of World War III is real: Click book cover image to order directly from Global Research  (pdf version, print version not currently available) While one can conceptualize the loss of life and destruction resulting from present-day wars including Ukraine, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, it is impossible to fully comprehend the devastation which might result…

David R. Henderson, Remembering Hiroshima

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by David R. Henderson  [Editor’s note: The following is an encore presentation of David R. Henderson’s column of July 31, 2006.] Sometimes, something happens that is so awful that we find ourselves rationalizing it, talking as if it had to happen, to make ourselves feel better about the horrible event. For many people, I believe, President Truman’s dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, were two such events. After all, if the leader of arguably the freest country in the world decided…