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Nukes vs. Humanity

COMMENTARY: Nukes vs. Humanity

Huntington News By Tom H. Hastings Sept. 8, 2009
The decision to develop nukes was entirely secret, arrogating this existential threat to a tiny priesthood in one country—replicated more or less in every nation which has acquired these blasphemous things. This problem is self explanatory and so patently anti-democratic that it is simply necessary to continue to point it out. Nothing conceived in such opacity can be good for democracy.

In every approximation of global democracy (polls, petitions, UN General Assembly resolutions), the people of planet Earth have said they do not want these weapons. * Nukes were seen as inevitable by scientists, as possibly about to be invented by a truly evil regime — Germany under the Nazis — and as a weapon to use to destroy evil.

In fact, nuclear weapons themselves are evil, period. They cannot be used for good purposes. Summoning evil into the world to fight evil is still evil, and, with weapons that are so permanently toxic, so indiscriminate in their annihilatory capacity, and so costly in every way, the permanent evil of building these omnicidal weapons outranks all transitory evils they are meant to destroy.

About all regimes we can say, This too will pass. We cannot say that about nuclear waste, which will be poisonous to life on Earth for geologic time spans. Not so incidentally, the nazis were nowhere near inventing nukes. * Nukes have a spun aura of bringing an end to war and keeping the peace in the aftermath.

First, historians have shown that the US broke Japanese codes and knew they were ready for a conditional surrender many months before the actual unconditional surrender. The war was prolonged, not shortened, because Truman wanted to use these frightening new bombs to prove to the Soviets that we were just crazy enough to do such things.

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September 9, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons