COMMENT: Marty! Great that you wrote about radiation, and then peace talks! Thanks!!!!!!!
I knew Milt well, the man who was in charge of decoding communications which had been sent directly from the President and relaying them to military personnel on foreign soil in WWII. When in his 80s, Milt told me that when Truman saw the actual horrific and terrifyingly gruesome effects of not-so-Little Boy, he ordered an immediate cancellation of the plan to bomb Nagasaki. Milt sent that communication directly to the pilot of the plane carrying that second bomb. But that pilot wanted the Purple Heart, so he dropped it anyway.
The USA military didn’t want to look bad to the world, so they pretended that the order FROM THE PRESIDENT never happened. Instead of court-martialing the pilot, Milt said they gave him the Purple Heart.
“Honor” is the only driving legitimacy of the military. Right.
Milt was a 100% dedicated patriot, serving in a key position in decoding and in communications in two wars. When he suddenly realized he had just breached his vow of silence on the subject, he was aghast and said no more to me on the subject.
nps.gov/articles/trumanatomicbomb.htm
The temperature near the blast site reached 5,400 degrees Fahrenheit. The sky seemed to explode. Birds ignited in midair; asphalt boiled. People over two miles away burst into crumbling cinders. Others with raw skin hanging in flaps around their hips leaped shrieking into waterways to escape the heat. Men without feet stumbled about on the charred stumps of their ankles. Women without jaws screamed incoherently for help. Bodies described as “boiled octopuses” littered the destroyed streets. Children, tongues swollen with thirst, pushed floating corpses aside to soothe their scalded throats with bloody river water.
The entire world should be informed of the very real life-extermination possibilities and excruciating effects of even one rogue event, along with its effects on the entire planet. Most people just don’t get it.
THANKS FOR DOING ALL YOU CAN, as many of us are doing, too.
You’re not alone. I and many others are with you…
