Chris Hedges, truthdig.com, August 6, 2012
On this day in 1945 the United States demonstrated that it was as
morally bankrupt as the Nazi machine it had recently vanquished and the
Soviet regime with which it was allied. Over Hiroshima, and three days
later over Nagasaki, it exploded an atomic device that was the most
efficient weapon of genocide in human history. The blast killed tens of
thousands of men, women and children. It was an act of mass annihilation
that was strategically and militarily indefensible. The Japanese had
been on the verge of surrender. Hiroshima and Nagasaki had no military
significance. It was a war crime for which no one was ever tried. The
explosions, which marked the culmination of three centuries of physics,
signaled the ascendancy of the technician and scientist as our most
potent agents of death.
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| Illustration by Mr. Fish |
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