August 9, 1945: The Day the US dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki - 'Fat Boy'

August 9, 1945: The Day the US dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki -'Fat Boy'

Today, 9 August 2014 is 69th anniversary of the day that the US government
dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki, Japan at 11:02 a.m.

Forty thousand - 40,000- human beings were vaporized in less than a second.
The final death toll was 73,884 and a further 74,909 were injured. Each
person had a family, or friends, their own lives and history and stories.
Each one deserved to live.

Atomic weapons are not just weapons of mass destruction (WMDs); they
are genocidal weapons. America has a history of conducting genocidal wars
and campaigns. Before Europeans arrived on the shores of what is now called
the United States roughly 12 million Indians lived on what is know the 
continental United States. That's what US government and historical data
reports.

At the beginning of the 20th century, roughly 250,000 Native Americans 
had survived.  That's less than 2% of the original population survived.
Those who did survive were put into concentration or Prisoner of War 
camps called 'Reservations.' Most Americans don't like to dwell on that.

The tactics used by the American military in the Vietnam War were from
the tactics used against Native Americans, and later refined in the
Philippine–American War 1899-1902. Scorched earth policies, not taking
prisoners(When I went to the Vietnam War I was told by other marines 'we
don't take prisoners.' It was considered a badge of honor; but it is one of
the gravest war crimes).

To justify the use of those bombs against the Japanese people and cities
which had no military value the US government contrived lies to tell the
American people. They said that had they not dropped the bombs upwards
of one million US military personnel would have been killed in invading
Japan.

That was a blatant lie. Almost every military person in commanding positions
was against the use of the bomb. Admiral William D. Leahy, President 
Truman's Chief of Staff said:

'[T]he 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. . . .

    [I]n being the first to use it, we . . . adopted an ethical standard common 
to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that 
fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.

As early as 18 June 1945, Leahy wrote in his diary: 'It is my opinion at the
present time that a surrender of Japan can be arranged with terms that can 
be accepted by Japan and that will make fully satisfactory provisions for 
America's defense against future trans-Pacific aggression.'

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific 
Fleetduring World War II had this to say at the Washington Monument on
5 October 1945 'The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before
the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of 
Hiroshima and before the Russian entry into the war. "The atomic bomb
played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat 
of Japan. . . ."]

Admiral William 'Bull' Halsey said in 1946:'The first atomic bomb was 
an unnecessary experiment. . . . It was a mistake to ever drop it.'

Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, commanding general of the U.S. Army Air
Forces said 'The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first
atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.'

Even  right-wing Major General Curtis E. LeMay stated at press conferences
and  speaking said that the use of the bomb "had nothing to do with the end
of the war." He said the war would have been over in two weeks without 
the use of the atomic bomb or the Russian entry into the war."

And  later President Eisenhower once remarked ". . . it wasn't necessary to
hit them with that awful thing."

In the language of international humanitarian law there was no 'military necessity'
to drop either bomb. It was done to see what the effects would be, and to warn 
the Russia. 

Today, we stand on the verge of another World War, and like both of 
the previous ones it is about world domination, or who is going to
dominate the world. The US called World War II a 'War for Democracy.'

But, if that was true then why has the US occupied Japan and the Pacific
Islands since they were supposedly liberated?

Why did they deliberately test atomic weapons on Pacific Islanders?

Nagasaki was lucky in one regard. Hiroshima was mostly flat, but
Nagasaki had mountains that helped to limit the spread of the bobm.
But, it was a Crime Against Humanity!
It was genocide!