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Genocidal Weapon

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, January 28 2009, 21:57:52 (CET)
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Genocidal Weapon

Just finished excellent biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer...the brilliant American physicist who directed the Manhattan Project...also known as the “Father of the Atomic Bomb”. Oppenheimer and many others said at the time that Japan was already essentially defeated...that there was no military reason to drop the bomb on civilians...mostly women and children. Later it came out that the reasons were political....first to keep the Soviets from fulfilling their treaty obligations to us and entering the Pacific War. Truman wanted the Japanese to surrender only to the United States, alone...and also to protect Truman and the Democrats at the elections...because McCarthy was already ranting about who “betrayed” atomic secrets to the Soviets...they wanted to win at the polls so Truman had to be “tough”.

Oppenheimer ruined his government career by opposing creation of the much more powerful Hydrogen bomb...thermonuclear. He was seen as a damn pacifist, a fool and possibly a traitor and secret communist sympathizer...he said no more bombs should be built or else there would start a runaway arms race...

Interestingly he also said nuclear bombs had no military application...that they couldn’t be used against military targets because they were too powerful for such small targets...that, as Hiroshima and Nagasaki had shown, these were weapons of mass destruction..and then he hit it on the head...he said atom bombs were weapons of GENOCIDE...because they had the potential of wiping out whole populations. There’s an interesting thought....and it’s true...you really can’t use such big bombs against battleships or army bases....they take out hundreds and thousands of square miles of everything....therefore their only use, if used at all, is to commit Genocide.

Why isn’t surprising that Christians invented these weapons...and used them? Armageddon anyone?

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