Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:30 1 Background
00:03:39 1.1 Pacific War
00:07:34 1.2 Preparations to invade Japan
00:12:07 1.3 Air raids on Japan
00:18:24 1.4 Atomic bomb development
00:20:42 2 Preparations
00:20:52 2.1 Organization and training
00:24:26 2.2 Choice of targets
00:29:22 2.3 Proposed demonstration
00:32:52 2.4 Leaflets
00:35:38 2.5 Consultation with Britain and Canada
00:38:34 2.6 Potsdam Declaration
00:40:48 2.7 Bombs
00:43:02 3 Hiroshima
00:43:11 3.1 Hiroshima during World War II
00:46:46 3.2 Bombing of Hiroshima
00:51:32 3.3 Events on the ground
00:57:39 3.4 Japanese realization of the bombing
00:59:47 4 Events of August 7–9
01:03:33 5 Nagasaki
01:03:42 5.1 Nagasaki during World War II
01:06:27 5.2 Bombing of Nagasaki
01:16:15 5.3 Events on the ground
01:20:05 6 Plans for more atomic attacks on Japan
01:22:07 7 Surrender of Japan and subsequent occupation
01:26:10 8 Reportage
01:32:19 9 Post-attack casualties
01:35:04 9.1 Cancer increases
01:36:54 9.2 Birth defect investigations
01:39:42 9.3 Investigations into brain development
01:44:24 10 iHibakusha/i
01:47:01 10.1 Double survivors
01:48:22 10.2 Korean survivors
01:49:11 11 Memorials
01:51:37 12 Debate over bombings
01:53:24 13 Legacy
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During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed 129,000–226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of armed conflict.
In the final year of the war, the Allies prepared for what was anticipated to be a very costly invasion of the Japanese mainland. This undertaking was preceded by a conventional and firebombing campaign that devastated 67 Japanese cities. The war in Europe had concluded when Germany signed its instrument of surrender on May 8, 1945. As the Allies turned their full attention to the Pacific theater, Japan faced the same fate. The Allies called for the unconditional surrender of the Imperial Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945—the alternative being prompt and utter destruction. Japan ignored the ultimatum and the war continued.
By August 1945, the Allies' Manhattan Project had produced two types of atomic bombs, and the 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) was equipped with the specialized Silverplate version of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress that could deliver them from Tinian in the Mariana Islands. Orders for atomic bombs to be used on four Japanese cities were issued on July 25. On August 6, one of the modified B-29s dropped a uranium gun-type (Little Boy) bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, a plutonium implosion (Fat Man) bomb was dropped by another B-29 on Nagasaki. The bombs immediately devastated their targets. Over the next two to four months, the acute effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 people in Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day. Large numbers of people continued to die from the effects of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness and malnutrition, for many months afterward. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians, although Hiroshima had a sizable military garrison.
On August 15—six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war—Japan announced its surrender to the Allies. On September 2 in Tokyo Bay, the Japanese government signed the instrument of surrender, which effectively ended World War II. The effects of ...
Japanese war crimes | Wikipedia audio article
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War crimes of the Empire of Japan occurred in many Asia-Pacific countries during the period of Japanese imperialism, primarily during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. These incidents have been described as an Asian Holocaust. Some war crimes were committed by military personnel from the Empire of Japan in the late 19th century, although most took place during the first part of the Shōwa Era, the name given to the reign of Emperor Hirohito, until the surrender of the Empire of Japan in 1945.
The war crimes involved the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy under Emperor Hirohito and were responsible for the deaths of millions. Historical estimates of the number of deaths ranges between 3 and 14 million civilians and prisoners of war through massacre, human experimentation, starvation, and forced labor that was either directly perpetrated or condoned by the Japanese military and government. Some Japanese soldiers have admitted to committing these crimes. Airmen of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service and Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service were not included as war criminals because there was no positive or specific customary international humanitarian law that prohibited the unlawful conduct of aerial warfare either before or during World War II. The Imperial Japanese Army Air Service took part in conducting chemical and biological attacks on enemy nationals during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II and the use of such weapons in warfare were generally prohibited by international agreements signed by Japan, including the Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907), which banned the use of poison or poisoned weapons in warfare.Since the 1950s, senior Japanese Government officials have issued numerous apologies for the country's war crimes. Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that the country acknowledges its role in causing tremendous damage and suffering during World War II, especially in regard to the IJA entrance into Nanjing during which Japanese soldiers killed a large number of non-combatants and engaged in looting and rape. That being said, some members of the Liberal Democratic Party in the Japanese government such as former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi and current Prime Minister Shinzō Abe have prayed at the Yasukuni Shrine, which includes convicted Class A war criminals in its honored war dead. Some Japanese history textbooks only offer brief references to the various war crimes, and members of the Liberal Democratic Party have denied some of the atrocities such as government involvement in abducting women to serve as comfort women (sex slaves). Allied authorities found that Koreans and Taiwanese serving in the forces of the Empire of Japan also committed war crimes, in addition to Japanese military and civil personnel.
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Wikipedia audio article
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- Socrates
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During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed 129,000–226,000 people, most of whom were civilians. They remain the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.
In the final year of the war, the Allies prepared for what was anticipated to be a very costly invasion of the Japanese mainland. This undertaking was preceded by a conventional and firebombing campaign that destroyed 67 Japanese cities. The war in Europe had concluded when Germany signed its instrument of surrender on May 8, 1945. As the Allies turned their full attention to the Pacific War, the Japanese faced the same fate. The Allies called for the unconditional surrender of the Imperial Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945—the alternative being prompt and utter destruction. The Japanese rejected the ultimatum and the war continued.
By August 1945, the Allies' Manhattan Project had produced two types of atomic bombs, and the 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) was equipped with the specialized Silverplate version of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress that could deliver them from Tinian in the Mariana Islands. Orders for atomic bombs to be used on four Japanese cities were issued on July 25. On August 6, one of its B-29s dropped a Little Boy uranium gun-type bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, a Fat Man plutonium implosion-type bomb was dropped by another B-29 on Nagasaki. The bombs immediately devastated their targets. Over the next two to four months, the acute effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 people in Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day. Large numbers of people continued to die from the effects of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness and malnutrition, for many months afterward. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians, although Hiroshima had a sizable military garrison.
Japan announced its surrender to the Allies on August 15, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war. On September 2, the Japanese government signed the instrument of surrender, effectively ending World War II. The ethical and legal justification for the bombings is still debated to this day.
W.B. Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States of America
During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S. Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman's to solve when, on April 12, 1945, he became President. He told reporters, I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.
Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884. He grew up in Independence, and for 12 years prospered as a Missouri farmer.
He went to France during World War I as a captain in the Field Artillery. Returning, he married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, and opened a haberdashery in Kansas City.
Active in the Democratic Party, Truman was elected a judge of the Jackson County Court (an administrative position) in 1922. He became a Senator in 1934. During World War II he headed the Senate war investigating committee, checking into waste and corruption and saving perhaps as much as 15 billion dollars.
As President, Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in history. Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage. An urgent plea to Japan to surrender was rejected. Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work. Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender quickly followed.
In June 1945 Truman witnessed the signing of the charter of the United Nations, hopefully established to preserve peace.
Thus far, he had followed his predecessor's policies, but he soon developed his own. He presented to Congress a 21-point program, proposing the expansion of Social Security, a full-employment program, a permanent Fair Employment Practices Act, and public housing and slum clearance. The program, Truman wrote, symbolizes for me my assumption of the office of President in my own right. It became known as the Fair Deal.
Dangers and crises marked the foreign scene as Truman campaigned successfully in 1948. In foreign affairs he was already providing his most effective leadership.
In 1947 as the Soviet Union pressured Turkey and, through guerrillas, threatened to take over Greece, he asked Congress to aid the two countries, enunciating the program that bears his name--the Truman Doctrine. The Marshall Plan, named for his Secretary of State, stimulated spectacular economic recovery in war-torn western Europe.
When the Russians blockaded the western sectors of Berlin in 1948, Truman created a massive airlift to supply Berliners until the Russians backed down. Meanwhile, he was negotiating a military alliance to protect Western nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, established in 1949.
In June 1950, when the Communist government of North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman conferred promptly with his military advisers. There was, he wrote, complete, almost unspoken acceptance on the part of everyone that whatever had to be done to meet this aggression had to be done. There was no suggestion from anyone that either the United Nations or the United States could back away from it.
A long, discouraging struggle ensued as U.N. forces held a line above the old boundary of South Korea. Truman kept the war a limited one, rather than risk a major conflict with China and perhaps Russia.
Deciding not to run again, he retired to Independence; at age 88, he died December 26, 1972, after a stubborn fight for life.
- The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.gov are from “The Presidents of the United States of America,” by Frank Freidel and Hugh Sidey. Copyright 2006 by the White House Historical Association.
Warren Cohen: The Golden Age of East Asian Art Collecting -- and After
March 16, 2012, Warren I. Cohen, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Senior Scholar, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. gives his lecture The Golden Age of East Asian Art Collecting -- and After for the symposium 'The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in America' organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, March 15-16, 2012.
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Abraham Lincoln is among the most beloved presidents in the history of the United States. Naturally, as with many historical figures, Lincoln is surrounded by legends & mysteries. Lincoln told his friend Ward Hill Lamon about a dream that he’d had. Since 1865, there have been numerous sightings of Lincoln at the White House. Eleanor Roosevelt claimed that she felt his presence & believed him to, occasionally, be in the same room with her. First lady Grace Goodhue allegedly saw Lincoln as he stared at the Potomac with his arms clasped behind his back. A young clerk had reportedly seen Lincoln sitting on a bed & removing a pair of boots. A number of White House visitors, staff & even several presidents including Harry Truman & Theodore Roosevelt have reported inexplicable events taking place in the building.
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The figure has a cowl, long robes & is seemingly holding its arms folded together. Some believe that it is wearing a mask. The ghost is also around nine feet tall, when compared to the surrounding furniture. The photo has been analyzed by several experts who didn’t find it to be the result of double exposure.
6 Flying Dutchman
The story of the Flying Dutchman is one of the best known maritime myths, believed to have originated in the 17th century, during the golden age of the Dutch East India Company. It’s the inspiration for numerous works of literature, music, cinema, artwork & others. The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ship doomed to sail the seas forever & never make port. With many reported or alleged sightings throughout the years, particularly in 19th & 20th centuries.
5 Japanese Creatures
These sightings involve Japanese cab drivers in 2011. College student Yuka Kudo travelled to a town called Ishinomaki. She started talking to cab drivers & asked them if they had experienced anything strange after. Most didn’t have anything to say but seven of them detailed eerily similar incidents in which they’d picked up passengers. They looked like normal people & would get into their cabs & tell the drivers their destination. As one incident suggested, these weren’t normal people who simply wanted to avoid paying for their cabs.
4 Orang Minyak
In the Malay language Orang Myniak literally translates as ‘oily man’. According to the legend the orang minyak was a man attempting to win back his love with magic. During the 1960s sightings of the orang minyak were reported around several Malaysian towns. It was described as a human or the spirit of a human covered in oil. Sightings & events associated with the mythological creature continued into the 2000s.
3 Brown Lady
One of the most famous photos ever taken is that of the ‘Brown Lady’ of Raynham Hall. In September, 1936, photographers for Country Life magazine were documenting 17th century Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England. Shira quickly asked Provand to take a picture, but, by the time the captain raised his head it was already too late. Provand initially suggested that his assistant had imagined the whole incident had. Sightings had been reported ever since the 1800s. While staying at Raynham Hall in 1849, a man called Major Loftus saw a woman in brown brocade.
2 Tennessee Creature
The story of the Tennessee creature began circulating in the early 1800s, after farmer John Bell & his family moved to the community of Red River, Tennessee, from North Carolina. Before long, the family started reporting a variety of strange incidents. These included whispering voices similar to those of old women singing hymns, rats gnawing away at the family’s beds & the sighting of a bizarre animal which appeared to be a hybrid between a rabbit & a dog. A spirit, believed to have been that of a woman called Kate Batts, began haunting Bell’s home. The entity was able to speak, change form & even affect the physical environment. According to legends, the family also discovered a vial containing an unknown liquid inside the house. As the story goes, before he became president, Andrew Jackson had heard of Bell’s troubles & decided to investigate it. He & several of his men visited Bell’s farm & it was Jackson who dubbed the presence.
1 Kuchisake-onna
Kuchisake-onna or the Slit Mouth Woman is one of Japan’s most famous ones whose story dates as far back as the Edo period, between 1603 & 1868. Some legends describe her with a husband who was a samurai. Reported sightings began around the Nagasaki Prefecture in 1979 & quickly spread to the rest of Japan.
Strategic bombing during World War II | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:00 1 Legal considerations
00:06:13 2 Europe
00:06:21 2.1 Policy at the start of the war
00:09:13 2.2 Early war in Europe
00:09:23 2.2.1 Poland
00:16:36 2.2.2 The Western Front, 1939 to May 1940
00:19:40 2.2.3 Rotterdam Blitz
00:22:23 2.2.4 Allied response
00:25:02 2.2.5 The Battle of Britain and the Blitz
00:33:31 2.3 Germany later in the war
00:40:27 2.4 The British later in the war
00:51:59 2.4.1 Other British efforts
00:52:33 2.5 US bombing in Europe
01:00:29 2.6 Bombing in Romania
01:02:57 2.7 Bombing in Italy
01:08:21 2.8 Bombing in France
01:11:16 2.9 Soviet strategic bombing
01:16:34 2.10 Effectiveness
01:19:33 2.11 Effect on morale
01:22:54 2.12 Allied bombing statistics 1939–45
01:23:51 2.13 Casualties
01:26:02 3 Asia
01:26:34 3.1 Japanese bombing
01:28:22 3.2 Allied bombing of South-East Asia
01:29:55 3.3 United States bombing of Japan
01:30:55 3.3.1 Conventional bombing
01:39:37 3.3.2 Nuclear bombing
01:44:08 4 See also
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Strategic bombing during World War II was the sustained aerial attack on railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory during World War II. Strategic bombing is a military strategy which is distinct from both close air support of ground forces and tactical air power.During World War II, it was believed by many military strategists of air power that major victories could be won by attacking industrial and political infrastructure, rather than purely military targets. Strategic bombing often involved bombing areas inhabited by civilians and some campaigns were deliberately designed to target civilian populations in order to terrorize and disrupt their usual activities. International law at the outset of World War II did not specifically forbid aerial bombardment of cities despite the prior occurrence of such bombing during World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Strategic bombing during World War II began on 1 September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) began bombing cities and the civilian population in Poland in an indiscriminate aerial bombardment campaign. As the war continued to expand, bombing by both the Axis and the Allies increased significantly. The Royal Air Force began bombing Germany in March 1940. In September 1940, the Luftwaffe began targeting British cities in 'The Blitz'. After the beginning of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Luftwaffe attacked Soviet cities and infrastructure. From 1942 onward, the British bombing campaign against Germany became less restrictive and increasingly targeted industrial sites and eventually, civilian areas. When the United States began flying bombing missions against Germany, it reinforced these efforts and controversial firebombings were carried out against Hamburg (1943), Dresden (1945), and other German cities.In the Pacific War, the Japanese bombed civilian populations throughout the war (e.g. in Chongqing). The US air raids on Japan began in earnest in October 1944 and by March 1945 had started their escalation into widespread firebombing, which culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively.
The effect of strategic bombing was highly debated during and after the war. Both the Luftwaffe and RAF failed to deliver a knockout blow by destroying enemy morale. However some argued that strategic bombing of non-military targets could significantly reduce enemy industrial capacity and production and in the opinion of its interwar period proponents, the surrender of Japan vindicated strategic bombing.
From Army Private to Atomic Physicist for the Manhattan Project
October 28, 2015
The Fall 2015 Presidential Lecture Series:
FROM ARMY PRIVATE TO ATOMIC PHYSICIST FOR THE MANHATTAN PROJECT”
A LECTURE BY
DR. BENJAMIN BEDERSON
U.S. Army Veteran
Experiential Atomic Physicist, the Manhattan Project
Professor Emeritus of the Department of Physics at New York University
Former Editor-in-Chief of the American Physical Society
The Manhattan Project was one of the most significant government projects in history. It was a research and development program that produced the first atomic bombs during WWII. It was led by the U.S. with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Almos National Laboratory who designed the actual bombs.
The story of how I became present at one of history’s turning points can be attributed to fortuitous career choices, extraordinary army assignments and many life-changing events that were beyond my control.
Throughout my life I have always felt a deep connection with New York City, it is where I grew up, where I was educated and earned the greater part of my living, and where I raised, together with my wonderful wife, our family of four sons.
BENJAMIN BEDERSON, a native New Yorker, grew up in the Bronx and Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. He attended The City College of New York (CUNY) for two and one half years before leaving school to take a job at the Army Signal Corps as a civilian in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From there he was drafted in 1942.
Because he had no military experience he was sent to Radio School to become a tail gunner on a B-17. Shortly thereafter, he was selected to participate in a new Army program called the Army Specialized Training Program where he took a course in electrical engineering at Ohio State University.
By chance an interviewing board came to Ohio State and his commanding officer encouraged him to apply for something called the Manhattan Project. As a U.S. Army private in his early twenties, Bederson was one of the lowest ranking soldiers assigned to the project. He was chosen for his natural talents as a budding scientist and became part of the Special Engineering Detachment and transferred once again, this time to Los Alamos. There he worked on wiring the switches for the atomic bombs and tested the switches for the bomb that would eventually be dropped on Nagasaki.
After that fateful summer of 1945, Bederson continued his research as an experimental atomic physicist, working for many years as a professor at New York University teaching a course called Physics in Society. He also served as editor-in-chief of the American Physical Society and helped usher physics journals into the electronic age.
Daniel Ellsberg spoke at the Annual Friends of the Libraries Reception at UMass Amherst
October 30, 2019 Daniel Ellsberg spoke at the 21st Annual Friends of the Libraries Fall Reception. Ellsberg was the featured speaker to celebrate the recent acquisition of his personal papers by the UMass Amherst Libraries.
UMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the largest public research university in New England, distinguished by the excellence and breadth of its academic, research and community programs. Founded in 1863 and home to nearly 30,000 total undergraduate and graduate students, UMass ranks no. 27 in a field of more than 700 public, four-year colleges across the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report's latest annual college guide.
UMass Amherst stretches across more than 1,400 acres of land in the historic Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, providing a rich cultural environment in a rural setting close to major urban centers - campus sits 90 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City. The idyllic college town of Amherst is home to hiking, biking, museums, music, theater, history, food, farms and much more. UMass Amherst also joins a local consortium of five nationally recognized colleges, including Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges.
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Michael Kirby, North Korea and our Dilemma
North Korea and our Dilemma: How to Secure Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity by a Recalcitrant Nuclear State?
Michael Kirby was a Justice of the High Court of Australia (1996-2009), the nation's highest appellate and constitutional Court. In 2013-14 he served as chair of the Commission of Inquiry of the UN Human Rights Council investigating crimes against humanity in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The commission found grave and long-standing crimes against humanity and called for referral of its report to the Security Council of the United Nations. That body has the power to refer matters to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague. He warned the Supreme Leader of North Korea that, under international law, he was potentially personally accountable for failing to use his power to prevent and redress such crimes. Although the commission's report was duly sent to the Security Council by the UN Human Rights Council and the General Assembly, so far the Security Council as failed to enliven the jurisdiction of the ICC. In recent weeks, the Council has imposed new and stronger sanctions against North Korea following the conduct of a fourth nuclear weapons test and missile tests. The report of the commission has been widely praised for its powerful description of great wrongs. But how do we move beyond another UN report into effective subjection of this dangerous state and its leadership to compulsory accountability before an international tribunal responding to the deep concerns of humanity? The speaker will outline our dilemma. He will also answer questions and suggest possible future developments.
The Ulysses and Marguerite Schwartz Memorial Lectureship at the University of Chicago Law School is held by a distinguished lawyer or teacher whose experience is in the academic field or practice of public service.
Presented on March 29, 2016, at the University of Chicago Law School.
Beyond Our Paradise (2018 documentary)
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ch 19) Surprises
chapter 19: A People's History (Of The United States) Howard Zinn.
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Chapter 19, Surprises, covers other movements that happened during the 1960s, such as second-wave feminism, the prison reform/prison abolition movement, the Native American rights movement, and the counterculture. People and events from the feminist movement covered include Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, Patricia Robinson, the National Domestic Workers Union, National Organization for Women, Roe v. Wade, Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will, and Our Bodies, Ourselves. People and events from the prison movement covered include George Jackson, the Attica Prison riots, and Jerry Sousa. People and events from the Native American rights movement covered include the National Indian Youth Council, Sid Mills, Akwesasne Notes, Indians of All Tribes, the First Convocation of American Indian Scholars, Frank James, the American Indian Movement, and the Wounded Knee incident. People and events from the counterculture covered include Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Malvina Reynolds, Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death, Jonathan Kozol, George Dennison, and Ivan Illich.
86th Annual Meeting: Sunday Plenary Luncheon
The United States Conference of Mayors
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The Future of Robotics
Robots are being used for housecleaning, pizza delivery, health care and much more — to make life easier. Prepare now, be flexible and thrive!
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Föreläsning i Västerås 2019 - Sverige håller på att vakna!
Många år har nu gått sedan De Fria och Carl Norberg gav sig ut på uppdraget att försöka upplysa allmänheten om tingens ordning i verkligheten och vad som ovillkorligen står för dörren som en konsekvens, en allmänhet bestående av den kanske enskilt mest mentalt tränade befolkningen i världen - dvs den svenska.
En resa som bäst beskrivs som en emotionell berg- och dalbana när vi ser till vad som förevarit, med det massiva motstånd vi under alla år fått utstå från såväl sittande etablissemang såsom illasinnade krafter i samhället och inte minst då en synnerligen omedveten befolkning, som en direkt konsekvens av den institutionaliserade korruption som är rådande i det lilla landet lagom sedan mycket långt tillbaka.
Just därför är denna föreläsning ett monument över vad vi kan åstadkomma när vi kombinerar våra ansträngningar utifrån våra egna förmågor och ett tydligt bevis på att även de minsta av varelser kan vara med och skapa förutsättningarna för den största av förändringar. Det handlar om att vara den vattendroppe som hjälper till att urholka stenen, genom upplysning till vidare upplysning och ledning.
Ett särskilt tack vill vi sända till alla er som dök upp och gjorde vår föreläsning till den succé den blev! ❤
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Tony Essaye's Interview
Tony Essaye discusses his life and fascinating career in this interview. He was born in London, England but grew up in the U.S. after being evacuated during World War II. He joined ROTC during his college years at Georgetown and was stationed in Japan during the 1950s. Essaye went on to become a lawyer and served as a counsel for the Peace Corps under Sargent Shriver. He was one of the lawyers who represented the Washington Post during the Pentagon Papers cases; actor Zach Woods portrays Essaye in the 2017 film “The Post.” He went on to work in a legal capacity for various political campaigns and politicians, including for Walter Mondale and Bill and Hillary Clinton. He also co-founded the International Senior Lawyers Project. In this interview, he offers his reflections on his career as well as major political events.
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5/12/16: White House Press Briefing
White House Press Briefings are conducted most weekdays from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing
Be Kind
Kindness begins by getting rid of the nuclear capability of the insane, racist, false flagging, theocratic state of Israel and removing its pernicious influence on the US government.
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The watch shown stopped at 8:15 (Pacific Time) when its internal working parts were melted by the nuclear fireball from the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The top picture shows the devastation wreaked on the city of Nagasaki, the bottom shows the devastation wreaked on the city of Hiroshima - the 2 Japanese cities which were destroyed by American atomic bombs at the end of World War II.
Although Truman gave the orders to drop these 2 bombs the real mothers of the atomic bomb were Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Bernard Baruch.
When Einstien arrived in the United States, he was feted as a famous scientist, and was invited to the White House by President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
His letter to Roosevelt requesting that the government inaugurate an atomic bomb program was obviously stirred by his lifelong commitment to peace and disarmament. His actual commitment was to Zionism...
The atomic bomb was developed at the Los Alamos Laboratories in New Mexico. The top secret project was called the Manhattan Project, because its secret director, Bernard Baruch, lived in Manhattan... The scientific director at Los Alamos was J. Robert Oppenheimer, scion of a prosperous family of clothing merchants. In
Oppenheimer; the Years Of Risk, by James Kunetka, Prentice Hall, NY, 1982, Kunetka writes, p. 106, Baruch was especially interested in Oppenheimer for the position of senior scientific adviser. The project cost an estimated two billion dollars. No other
nation in the world could have afforded to develop such a bomb. The first successful test of the atomic bomb occurred at the Trinity site, two hundred miles south of Los Alamos at 5:29:45 a.m. on July 16, 1945. Oppenheimer was beside himself at the spectacle. He
shrieked, I am become Death, the Destroyer of worlds. Indeed, this seemed to be the ultimate goal of the Manhattan Project, to destroy the world. There had been considerable fear among the scientists that the test explosion might indeed set off a chain reaction, which would destroy the entire world.
Oppenheimer's exultation came from his realization that now his people had attained the ultimate power, through which they could implement their five-thousand-year desire to rule the entire world.
THE BUCK PASSES TO TRUMAN
Although Truman liked to take full credit for the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, in fact, he was advised by a prestigious group, The National Defense Research Committee, consisting of George L. Harrison, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York; Dr. James B. Conant, president of Harvard, who had spent the First World War developing more effective poison gases, and who in 1942 had been commissioned by Winston Churchill to develop an Anthrax bomb to be used on Germany, which would have
killed every living thing in Germany. Conant was unable to perfect the bomb before Germany surrendered, otherwise he would have had another line to add to his resume. His service on Truman's Committee which advised him to drop the atomic bomb on Japan,
added to his previous record as a chemical warfare professional, allowed me to describe him in papers filed before the United States Court of Claims in 1957, as the most notorious war criminal of the Second World War.
As Gauleiter of Germany after the war, he had ordered the burning of my book, The Federal Reserve Conspiracy, ten thousand copies having been published in Oberammergau, the site of the world-famed Passion Play.
Also on the committee were Dr. Karl Compton, and James F. Byrnes, acting Secretary of State. For thirty years, Byrnes had been known as Bernard Baruch's man in Washington. With his Wall Street profits, Baruch had built the most lavish estate in South Carolina, which he named Hobcaw Barony. As the wealthiest man in South Carolina, this epitome of the carpet-bagger also controlled the political purse strings.
Now Baruch was in a position to dictate to Truman, through his man Byrnes, that he should drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
Eustace Mullins
The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb: Why Hiroshima was Destroyed