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Photograph Copyright 2016 Mitch Tobias www.mitchtobias.com (415) 647-0242
2016 In2 Summit Awards, SABRE Awards, The Holmes Group, Park Central Hotel in San Francisco. Event photography
Photograph Copyright 2016 Mitch Tobias www.mitchtobias.com (415) 647-0242
2016 In2 Summit Awards, SABRE Awards, The Holmes Group, Park Central Hotel in San Francisco. Event photography
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-Hiroshimaon Aug &: oav lakhs ofinnocent civilians and poisoning nil the generations.
Not 9/11, not Osama Bin Laden... to come?.
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ofmass mw-der.NuclearisationImperialism And 8:15a.m. atHiroshima 62 years ago: the world witnessed an unparalleled act.
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60 kg ofw-aniurn, and dropped from a B-29 United States Air Force warplane. .
The entire city ofHiroshima was flattened by a single bomb, made withjust.
Imagine the fate ofthe people -living in the city which within seconds be-.
came a furnace offlre-with temperatmes soaring to 4,000 C, more than 2,500.
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higher than the melting pointofiron. Hiroshima was ravaged by massive firesto~.savage fuestonns ripped through innumerable buildings, reducing them to rubble At 9/11 we saw the terrible sight oftwo towers reduced to rubble. AtHiroshima,.
SloganMight IsofRight-the US Army and burningthose within. Giantshock-waves releasing blastenergy ripped through .
the city, wreaking more destruction. .
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severely bw-nt by flrestonns. .
Within seconds, 80,000 peoplewere killed. Within hours, over 100,000 died, .er tes~ ~or.
When someone makes a move most ofthem crushed under the impact ofblast-waves and falling buildings, or Of which we don't approve,Who is it that always intervenes? lowed, invisible and intangible,-but taking a slow~ lethaL cruel toll. Thousands sin ?uo\iC on.
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They have their place, I guess, And the horror did notend with one day ofterror. Waves ofradiation fol-,,tso'MUS~'rns .
died within days fromradiation sickness produced by exposure to highdoses of .
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But first -send the Marines! gamma-rays or poisonous radio-nuclides. Hiroshima's death toll climbed to .~irns a\\ o\Jertne.
suffering was excruciating and prolonged. Those who survived enviedthe dead. For might makes right. 140,000. Thousands more died over years from cancers and leukaemia-their.
And till they've seen the light, Ifattack~ on civilians is terrorism, Hiroshima is certainly the world's ·,t1'\· autthere.
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They've got to be protected, 1~t.nAll their rights respected, I 1rns'i grol.lnds-.
Till somebody we like can be Three days after the Hiroshima's bombing, USAdro~aplutoniwn bomb ; e'llen atter ne ~aselected. .res in~ear0'nis\ite.The USA claimed the nuke bombs were needed to end the Second World ilirned to na-.Je tound .
on Nagasaki-and more than 70,000 people perished in agonising ways.Members of the corps War. The world knows that is a lie. ' . :ocurnents are intactAll hate the thought of war; Historians Peter Kuznick and Mark Selden, in an article in the British New l,eandtriedto accuse.
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Scientist magazine two years ago, disclosed that three days before Hiroshima, ,~r tnreats and coercion.
Stop calling it aggression, US GeneralPresident DwightHarry S.EisenhowerTrwnan agreedsaid inJapana 1963was Newsweek"looking forinterviewpeace". that "the .)·t 0 ~ tne no~eftu\ ?0\\\\Ca\Ooh, we hate that expressiont Japanese were ready to surrenderand it wasn'tnecessary to hit them with that ,....
awful thing". Truman's chiefofstaff,Admiral William Leahy, also said that''the .
That we support the status quo. use ofthis barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was ofno material .
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We only want the world to know assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and .
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They love us everywhere we go,.
So when In doubt, ready to surrender". ;Send the Marines! ! ~olice olliCers slill go see\·.
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sung byPete Seeger The real function ofthe two bombs was not military, but political. It .
Lyric byTom Lehrer, hegemony afterWorld Warn. ! · stands~Indicated-but NoUS Presidentwas ever tried for the ap_palling warcrime ofHiroshimaand j ·,;andIllegal I!OPrlson<Ont.
Nagasaki-surely a crime that was on par with Hitler's murderofthe Jews. No lI.
'Waron Terror' was ever launched against Harry Truman. The US never even ,.
had to@POlogise for this crime against hwnanitY. .;8«o.en\ .lte~oc:a\\Ofl.
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