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A
very popular movie in Japan was Pride, The Fateful Moment, which
shows Prime Minister General Hideki Tojo in a favorable light. With six
others, he was hanged in 1968 as a war criminal. During his trial, his
lawyers stated to the International
Tribunal for the Far East, the
Asian version of Nuremberg Trials, that Tojo's war crimes could not
begin to approach the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. The prosecutors immediately objected, and censored their
statements. That was the last time there was any official recognition
of the atomic bomb massacres in Japan. Japanese officials have been
effectively prevented from taking any stand on this matter because the
American military occupation, which officially ended in 1952 with the
Treaty with Japan, was quietly continued. Today, 49,000 American troops
are still stationed in Japan, and there is no public discussion of the
crimes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Cast
of Characters
The
House of Rothschild; international bankers who made enormous profits
during the nineteenth century, and used their money to take over
governments.
Bernard
Baruch: New York agent of the Rothschilds who at the turn of the
century set up the tobacco trust, the copper trust and other trusts for
the Rothschilds. He became the grey eminence of the United States
atomic bomb program when his lackey, J. Robert Oppenheimner, became
director of the Los Alamos bomb development, and when his Washington
lackey, James F. Byrnes, advised Truman to drop the atomic bomb on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Albert
Einstein; lifelong Zionist who initiated the United States' atomic bomb
program with a personal letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in
1939.
The
Secret History Of The Atomic Bomb
SUBTITLE
Why Hiroshima Was Destroyed - The Untold Story
By
Eustace C. Mullins
June
1998
The
world was stunned to learn that India has now tested nuclear weapons.
For many years, all nations have been concerned about the proliferation
of atomic explosives. Even in their distress, no one seems to be interested
in the historic or the psychological record of why these weapons
were developed, and what special breed of mankind devoted themselves to
this diabolical goal.
Despite
the lack of public interest, the record is clear, and easily available
to anyone who is interested. My interest in this subject, dormant for
many years was suddenly rekindled during my annual lecture tour in
Japan. My hosts had taken me to the city of Nagasaki for the first
time. Without telling me their plans, they entered the Nagasaki Atomic
Bomb Museum. I thought it would be an interesting experience, but, to
my surprise, when I walked into the exhibition rooms, I was suddenly
overcome by sadness. Realizing that I was about to burst into tears, I
moved away from my companions, and stood biting my lip. Even so, it
seemed impossible to control myself. I was surrounded by the most
gruesome objects, the fingers of a human hand fused with glass, a
photograph of the shadow of a man on a brick wall; the man had been
vaporized in the explosion .
A
NEW MISSION
When
I returned to the United States, I knew1 had to unearth the sinister
figures behind greatest of human catastrophes. It took many weeks of
research to uncover what turned out to be the most far-reaching conspiracy
of all time, the program of a few dedicated revolutionaries to seize
control of the entire world, by inventing the powerful weapon ever
unveiled.
The
story begins in Germany. In the 1930s, Germany and Japan had a number
of scientists icing on the development of nuclear fission. In both of
these countries, their leaders sternly forbade them to continue their
research. Adolf Hitler said he would never allow anyone in Germany to
work to work on such an inhumane weapon.
The
Emperor of Japan let his scientists know that he would never approve
such a weapon. At that time the United States had no one working on
nuclear fission. The disgruntled German scientists contacted friends in
the United States, and were told that there was a possibility of
government support for their work here. As Don Beyer tells these
immigrants to the United States pushed their program.
"Leo
Szilard, together with his long time friends and fellow Hungarian
physicists, Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller, agreed that the President
must be warned; fission bomb tehnology was not so farfetched. The
Jewish emigres, now living in America, had personal experience of
fascism in Europe. In 1939, the three physicists enlisted the support
of Albert Einstein, letter dated August 2 signed by Einstein was
delivered by Alexander Sachs to Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White
House on October 11, 39."
CRIMINALS
ON DISPLAY
At
the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, photographs of two men are prominently
displayed; Albert Einstein, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, who developed
the atomic bomb at Los Alamos laboratories, New Mexico. Also on display
is a statement from General Eisenhower, who was then supreme Military
Commander, which is found in number of books about Eisenhower, and
which can be found on p.426, Eisenhower by Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon
& Shuster, NY, 1983.
"Secretary
of War Henry L. Stimson first told Eisenhower of the bomb's existence.
Eisenhower was engulfed by "a feeling of depression'. When Stimson
said the United States proposed to use the bomb against Japan,
Eisenhower voiced 'my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief
that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was
completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country
should avoid shocking world opinion by the use (of atomic weapons).'
Stimson was upset by Eisenhower's attitude 'almost angrily refuting the
reasons I gave for my quick conclusion'. Three days later, Eisenhower
flew to Berlin, where he met with Truman and his principal advisors.
Again Eisenhower recommended against using the bomb, and again was
ignored.
Other
books on Eisenhower state that he endangered his career by his protests
against the bomb, which the conspirators in the highest level of the
United States government had already sworn to use against Japan,
regardless of any military developments. Eisenhower could not have
known that Stimson was a prominent member of Skull and Bones at Yale,
the Brotherhood of Death, founded by the Russell Trust in 1848 as a
bunch of the German Illuminati, or that they had played prominent roles
in organizing wars and revolutions since that time. Nor could he have
known that President Truman had only had one job in his career, as a
Masonic organizer for the State of Missouri, and that the lodges he
built up later sent him to the United States Senate and then to the
presidency.
ATOMIC
TERRORISM
The
man who set all this in motion was Albert Einstein, who left Europe and
came to the United States in October 1933. His wife said that he
"regarded human beings with detestation". He had previously
corresponded with Sigmund Freud about his projects of "peace"
and "disarmament", although Freud later said he did not
believe that Einstein ever accepted any of his theories. Einstein had a
personal interest in Freud's work because his son Eduard spent his life
in mental institutions, undergoing both insulin therapy and
electroshock treatment, none of which produced any change in his condition.
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. He was soon deeply involved with Eleanor Roosevelt in her
many leftwing causes, in which Einstein heartily concurred. Some of
Einstein's biographers hail the modern era as "the Einstein
Revolution" and "the Age of Einstein", possibly because
he set in motion the program of nuclear fission in the United States.
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; Ronald W. Clark mentions in Einstein; His Life And Times,
Avon, 1971, p.377, "He would campaign with the Zionists for a
Jewish homeland in Palestine." On p.460, Clark quotes Einstein,
"As a Jew I am from today a supporter of the Jewish Zionist
efforts." (1919) Einstein's letter to Roosevelt, dated august 2,
1939, was delivered personally to President Roosevelt by Alexander
Sachs on October 11. Why did Einstein enlist an intermediary to bring
this letter to Roosevelt, with whom he was on friendly terms? The
atomic bomb program could not be launched without the necessary Wall
Street sponsorship. Sachs, a Russian Jew, listed his profession as
"economist" but was actually a bagman for the Rothschilds,
who regularly delivered large sums of cash to Roosevelt in the White
House. Sachs was an advisor to Eugene Meyer of the Lazard Freres
International Banking House, and also with Lehman Brothers, another
well known banker. Sachs' delivery of the Einstein letter to the White
House let Roosevelt know that the Rothschilds approved of the project
and wished him to go full speed ahead.
A
UNITED NATIONS PROJECT
In
May of 1945, the architects of postwar strategy, or, as they liked to
call themselves, the "Masters of the Universe", gathered in San
Francisco at the plush Palace Hotel to write the Charter for the United
Nations. Several of the principals retired for a private meeting in the
exclusive Garden Room. The head of the United States delegation had
called this secret meeting with his top aide, Alger Hiss, representing
the president of the United States and the Soviet KGB; John Foster
Dulles, of the Wall Street law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, whose
mentor, William Nelson Cromwell, had been called a "professional
revolutionary" on the floor of Congress; and W. Averill Harriman,
plenipotentiary extraordinary, who had spent the last two years in
Moscow directing Stalin's war for survival. These four men represented
the awesome power of the American Republic in world affairs, yet of the
four, only Secretary of State Edward Stettinius Jr., had a position
authorized by the Constitution. Stettinius called the meeting to order
to discuss an urgent matter; the Japanese were already privately suing
for peace, which presented a grave crisis. The atomic bomb would not be
ready for several more months. "We have already lost
Germany," Stettinius said. "If Japan bows out, we will not
have a live population on which to test the bomb."
"But,
Mr. Secretary," said Alger Hiss, "no one can ignore the terrible
power of this weapon." "Nevertheless," said Stettinius,
"our entire postwar program depends on terrifying the world with
the atomic bomb." "To accomplish that goal," said John
Foster Dulles, "you will need a very good tally. I should say a
million." "Yes," replied Stettinius, "we are hoping
for a million tally in Japan. But if they surrender, we won't have
anything." "Then you have to keep them in the war until the bomb is
ready," said John Foster Dulles. "That is no problem.
Unconditional surrender." "They won't agree to that,"
said Stettinius. "They are sworn to protect the Emperor."
"Exactly," said John Foster Dulles. "Keep Japan in the war
another three months, and we can use the bomb on their cities; we will
end this war with the naked fear of all the peoples of the world, who
will then bow to our will."
Edward
Stettinius Jr. was the son of a J.P. Morgan partner who had been the
world's largest munitions dealer in the First World War. He had been
named by J.P. Morgan to oversee all purchases of munitions by both
France and England in the United States throughout the war. John Foster
Dulles was also an accomplished warmonger. In 1933, he and his brother
Allen had rushed to Cologne to meet with Adolf Hitler and guaranteed
him the funds to maintain the Nazi regime. The Dulles brothers were
representing their clients, Kuhn Loeb Co., and the Rothschilds. Alger
Hiss was the golden prince of the communist elite in the united States.
When he was chosen as head of the prestigious Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace after World War II, his nomination was seconded by
John Foster Dulles. Hiss was later sent to prison for perjury for lying
about his exploits as a Soviet espionage agent.
This
secret meeting in the Garden Room was actually the first military
strategy session of the United Nations, because it was dedicated to its
mission of exploding the world's first atomic weapon on a living
population. It also forecast the entire strategy of the Cold War, which
lasted forty-three years, cost American taxpayers five trillion
dollars, and accomplished exactly nothing, as it was intended to do.
Thus we see that the New World Order has based its entire strategy on
the agony of the hundreds of thousands of civilians burned alive at
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including many thousands of children sitting in
their schoolrooms. These leaders had learned from their master, Josef
Stalin, that no one can rule without mass terrorism, which in turn
required mass murder. As Senator Vandenberg, leader of the Republican
loyal opposition, was to say (as quoted in American Heritage magazine,
August 1977), "We have got to scare the hell out of "em."
THE
JEWISH HELL-BOMB
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, as did many of the other
principals. Baruch had chosen Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves to head the
operation. He had previously built the Pentagon, and had a good
reputation among the Washington politicians, who usually came when
Baruch beckoned.
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.
LIPMAN
SIEW
Despite
the fact that the Manhattan Project was the most closely guarded secret
of World War II, one man, and one many only, was allowed to observe
everything and to know everything about the project. He was Lipman Siew,
a Lithuanian Jew who had come to the United States as a political
refugee at the age of seventeen. He lived in Boston on Lawrence St.,
and decided to take the name of William L. Laurence. At Harvard, he
became a close friend of James B. Conant and was tutored by him. When
Laurence went to New York, he was hired by Herbert Bayard Swope, editor
of the New York World, who was known as Bernard Baruch's personal
publicity agent. Baruch owned the World. In 1930, Laurence accepted an
offer from the New York Times to become its science editor. He states
in Who's Who that he "was selected by the heads of the atomic bomb
project as sole writer and public relations." How one could be a
public relations writer for a top secret project was not explained.
Laurence was the only civilian present at the historic explosion of the
test bomb on July 16, 1945. Less than a month later, he sat in the
copilots seat of the B-29 on the fateful Nagasaki bombing run.
WILL
JAPAN SURRENDER BEFORE THE BOMB IS DROPPED?
There
were still many anxious moments for the conspirators, who planned to
launch a new reign of terror throughout the world. Japan had been suing
for peace. Each day it seemed less likely that she could stay in the
war. On March 9 and 10, 1945, 325 B-29s had burned thirty-five square
miles of Tokyo, leaving more than one hundred thousand Japanese dead in
the ensuing firestorm. Of Japan's 66 biggest cities, 59 had been mostly
destroyed. 178 square miles of urban dwellings had been burned, 500,000
died in the fires, and now twenty million Japanese were homeless. Only
four cities had not been destroyed; Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, and
Nagasaki. Their inhabitants had no inkling that they had been saved as
target cities for the experimental atomic bomb. Maj. Gen. Leslie
Groves, at Bernard Baruch's insistence, had demanded that Kyoto be the
initial target of the bomb. Secretary of War Stimson objected, saying
that as the ancient capital of Japan, the city of Kyoto had hundreds of
historic wooden temples, and no military targets. The Jews wanted to
destroy it precisely because of its great cultural importance to the
Japanese people.
THE
HORROR OF HIROSHIMA
While
the residents of Hiroshima continued to watch the B-29s fly overhead
without dropping bombs on them, they had no inkling of the terrible
fate which the scientists had reserved for them. William Manchester
quotes General Douglas MacArtbur in American Caesar, Little Brown,
1978, p.437
[quoting:]
There was another Japan, and MacArthur was one of the few Americans who
suspected its existence. He kept urging the Pentagon and the State
Department to be alert for conciliatory gestures. The General predicted
that the break would come from Tokyo, not the Japanese army. The
General was right. A dovish coalition was forming in the Japanese
capital, and it was headed by Hirohito himself, who had concluded in
the spring of 1945 that a negotiated peace was the only way to end his
nation's agony. Beginning in early May, a six-man council of Japanese
diplomats explored ways to accommodate the Allies. The delegates informed
top military officials that "our resistance is finished".
[End quoting]
On
p.359, Gar Alperowitz quotes Brig. Gen. Carter W. Clarke, in charge of
preparing the MAGIC summary in 1945, who stated in a 1959 historical
interview, "We brought them down to an abject surrender through
the accelerated sinking of their merchant marine and hunger alone, and
when we didn't need to do it, and knew we didn't need to do it, we used
them as an experiment for two atomic bombs."
Although
President Truman referred to himself as the sole authority in the
decision to drop the bomb, in fact he was totally influenced by Bernard
Baruch's man in Washington, James F. Byrnes. Gar Alperowitz states, p.
196, "Byrnes spoke with the authority of-personally represented-the
president of the United States on all bomb-related matters in the
Interim Committee's deliberations." David McCullough, in his
laudatory biography of Truman, which was described as "a
valentine", admitted that "Truman didn't know his own
Secretary of State, Stettinius. He had no background in foreign policy,
no expert advisors of his own."
The
tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was that a weak, inexperienced
president, completely under the influence of Byrnes and Baruch, allowed
himself to be manipulated into perpetrating a terrible massacre. In the
introduction to Hiroshima's Shadows, we find that "Truman was moving
in quite the opposite direction, largely under the influence of Byrnes.
The atom bomb for Byrnes was an instrument of diplomacy-atomic diplomacy."
(p.ix)
MASS
MURDER
On
August 6, 1945, a uranium bomb 3-235, 20 kilotons yield, was exploded
1850 feet in the air above Hiroshima, for maximum explosive effect. It
devastated four square miles, and killed 140,000 of the 255,000 inhabitants.
In Hiroshima's Shadows, we find a statement by a doctor who treated some
of the victims; p.415, Dr. Shuntaro Hida: "It was strange to us
that Hiroshima had never been bombed, despite the fact that B-29
bombers flew over the city every day. Only after the war did I come to
know that Hiroshima, according to American archives, had been kept
untouched in order to preserve it as a target for the use of nuclear
weapons. Perhaps, if the American administration and its military
authorities had paid sufficient regard to the terrible nature of the
fiery demon which mankind had discovered and yet knew so little about
its consequences, the American authorities might never have used such a
weapon against the 750,000 Japanese who ultimately became its victims."
Dr.
Hida says that while treating the terribly mangled and burned victims,
"My eyes were ready to overflow with tears. I spoke to myself and bit my
lip so that I would not cry. If I had cried, I would have lost my
courage to keep standing and working, treating dying victims of
Hiroshima."
On
p.433, Hiroshima's Shadows, Kensaburo Oe declares, "From the instant
the atomic bomb exploded, it became the symbol of all human evil; it
was a savagely primitive demon and most modern curse.... My nightmare
stems from a suspicion that a 'certain trust in human strength' or
'humanism' flashed across the minds of American intellectuals who
decided upon the project that concluded with the dropping of the bomb
on Hiroshima."
In
the introduction to Hiroshima's Shadows, we find that "One of the
myths of Hiroshima is that the inhabitants were warned by leaflets that
an atomic bomb would be dropped. The leaflets Leonard Nadler and
William P. Jones recall seeing in the Hiroshima Museum in 1960 and 1970
were dropped after the bombing. This happened because the President's
Interim Committee on the Atomic Bomb decided on May 31 'that we could
not give the Japanese any warning'. Furthermore, the decision to drop
'atomic' leaflets on Japanese cities was not made until August 7, the
day after the Hiroshima bombing. They were not dropped until August 10,
after Nagasaki had been bombed. We can say that the residents of
Hiroshima received no advance warning about the use of the atomic bomb.
On June 1, 1945, a formal and official decision was taken during a
meeting of the so-called Interim Committee not to warn the populations
of the specific target cities. James Byrnes and Oppenheimer insisted
that the bombs must be used without prior warning."
"Closely
linked to the question of whether a warning of an atomic bomb attack
was given to the civilian populations of the target cities is the third
'article of fifth' that underpins the American legend of Hiroshima; the
belief that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets. The
Headquarters of the Japanese Second army were located in Hiroshima and
approximately 20,000 men-of which about half, or 10,000 died in the
attack. In Nagasaki, there were about 150 deaths among military
personnel in the city. Thus, between the two cities, 4.4% of the total
death toll was made up of military personnel. In short, more than 95%
of the casualties were civilians."
On
p.39 of Hiroshima's Shadows we find that (at Hiroshima) "strictly
military damage was insignificant." How are we to reconcile this
statement with Harry Truman's vainglorious boast in Off The Record; the
Private Papers of Harry S. Truman Harper, 1980, p.304, "In 1945 I
had ordered the Atomic Bomb dropped on Japan at two places devoted
almost exclusively to war production." In fact, many thousands of
the Hiroshima casualties were children sitting in their classrooms.
The
bomb was dropped because (p.35) "The Manhattan Project's managers
were lobbying to use the atomic bomb. Byrnes sat in on these meetings.
Maj. Gen. Groves seems to have been the author of the claim that the
use of the bomb would save a million American lives--a figure in the
realm of fantasy."
Truman
himself variously stated that the use of the use of the atomic bomb
saved "a quarter of a million American lives", a "half-million
American lives", and finally settled on the Gen. Groves figure of
"a million American lives saved."
Meanwhile
(p.64) William L. Laurence, who was writing for the New York Times at
full salary while also receiving a full salary from the War Department
as the "public relations agent for the atomic bomb" published
several stories in the New York Times denying that there had been any
radiation effects on the victims of the Hiroshima bombing (Sept. 5,
1945 et seq.) in which he quotes General Groves' indignant comment,
"The Japanese are still continuing their propaganda aimed at
creating the impression we won the war unfairly and thus attempting to
create sympathy for themselves."
(p.66)
"The Legation of Switzerland on August 11, 1945 forwarded from
Tokyo the following memorandum to the State Department (which sat on it
for twenty-five years before finally releasing it): 'The Legation of
Switzerland has received a communication from the Japanese Government.'
On August 6, 1945, American airplanes released on the residential
district of the town of Hiroshima, bombs of a new type, killing and
injuring in one second a large number of civilians and destroying a
great part of the town. Not only is the city of Hiroshima a provincial
town without any protection or special military installations of any
kind, but also none of the neighboring regions or towns constitutes a
military objective."
The
introduction to Hiroshima's Shadows concludes that (p.lxvii) "The
claim that an invasion of the Japanese home islands was necessary
without the use of the atomic bombs is untrue. The claim that an
'atomic warning' was given to the populace of Hiroshima is untrue. And
the claim that both cities were key military targets is untrue."
A
PILOT'S STORY
Corroboration
of these statements is found in the remarkable record of Ellsworth
Torrey Carrington, "Reflections of a Hiroshima Pilot", (p.9)
"As part of the Hiroshima atomic battle plan my B-29 (named
Jabbitt III, Captain John Abbott Wilson's third war plane) flew the
weather observation mission over the secondary target of Kokura on
August 6, 1945." (p. 10) "After the first bomb was dropped,
the atom bomb command was very fearful that Japan might surrender
before we could drop the second bomb, so our people worked around the
clock, 24-hours-a-day to avoid such a misfortune." This is, of
course, satire on Carrington's part. (p. 13) "in city after city all
over the face of Japan (except for our cities spared because reserved
for atomic holocaust) they ignited the most terrible firestorms in
history with very light losses (of B-29s). Sometimes the heat from
these firestorms was so intense that later waves of B-29s were caught
by updrafts strong enough to loft them upwards from 4 or 5,000 feet all
the way up to 8 or 10,000 feet. The major told us that the fire-bombing
of Japan had proven successful far beyond anything they had imagined
possible and that the 20th Air Force was running out of cities to burn.
Already there were no longer (as of the first week in June 1945) any
target cities left that were worth the attention of more than 50 B-29s,
and on a big day, we could send up as many as 450 planes!"
"The totality of the devastation in Japan was extraordinary, and
this was matched by the near-totality of Japan's defencelessness." (as
of June 1, 1945, before the atomic bombs were dropped.) (p. 14)
"The Truman government censored and controlled all the war
information that was allowed to reach the public, and of course, Truman
had a vested interest in obscuring the truth so as to surreptitiously
prolong the war and be politically able to use the atom bomb. Regarding
the second element of the Roosevelt-Truman atomic Cold War strategy of
deceiving the public into believing that Japan was still militarily
viable in the spring and summer of 1945, the centerpiece was the
terribly expensive and criminally unnecessary campaign against Okinawa.
Carrington
quotes Admiral William D. Leahy, p. 245, I Was There, McGraw Hill:
"A large part of the Japanese Navy was already on the bottom of
the sea. The combined Navy surface and air force action even by this
time had forced Japan into a position that made her early surrender
inevitable. None of us then knew the potentialities of the atomic bomb,
but it was my opinion, and I urged it strongly on the Joint Chiefs,
that no major land invasion of the Japanese mainland was necessary to
win the war. The JCS did order the preparation of plans for an
invasion, but the invasion itself was never authorized."
Thus
Truman, urged on by General Groves, claims that "a million
American lives were saved" by the use of the atomic bomb, when no
invasion had ever been authorized, and was not in the cards. Carrington
continues, p. 16, "The monstrous truth is that the timing of the
Okinawa campaign was exclusively related to the early August timetable
of the atomic bomb. J'accuse! I accuse Presidents Franklin
Roosevelt and Harry Truman of deliberately committing war crimes
against the American people for the sole purpose of helping set the
stage for the criminally unnecessary use of atomic weapons on
Japan."
Carrington
further quotes Admiral Leahy, from I Was There, "It is my opinion
that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagaski was of
no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were
already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea
blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons."
Carrington
concludes, p.22, "Truman's wanton use of atomic weapons left the
American people feeling dramatically less secure after winning World War
II than they had ever felt before, and these feelings of insecurity
have been exploited by unscrupulous Cold War Machine Politicians ever
since." As Senator Vandenberg said, "We have to scare the
hell out of 'em" in order to browbeat the American people into
paying heavy taxes to support the Cold War.
DID
THE ATOMIC BOMB WIN THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN?
Admiral
William Leahy also stated in I Was There, "My own feeling is that
being the first to use it (the atomic bomb) we had adopted an ethical
standard common to the Barbarism of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to
make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women
and children."
Gar
Alperowitz notes, p. 16, "On May 5, May 12 and June 7, the Office
of Strategic Services (our intelligence operation), reported Japan
was considering capitulation. Further messages came on May 18, July 7,
July 13 and July 16."
Alperowitz
points out, p.36, "The standing United States demand for
'unconditional surrender' directly threatened not only the person of
the Emperor but such central tenets of Japanese culture as well."
Alperowitz
also quotes General Curtis LeMay, chief of the Air Forces, p.334,
"The war would have been over in two weeks without the Russians entering
and without the atomic bomb. PRESS INQUIRY: You mean that, sir? Without
the Russians and without the atomic bomb? LeMay: The atomic bomb had
nothing to do with the end of the war at all." September 29, 1945,
statement.
THE
NAGASAKI BOMB
When
the Air Force dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, with William
Laurence riding in the co-pilot's seat of the B-29, pretending to be
Dr. Strangelove, here again the principal target was a Catholic church.
P.93, The Fall Of Japan, by William Craig, Dial, NY, 1967, "the
roof and masonry of the Catholic cathedral fell on the kneeling worshippers.
All of them died." This church has now been rebuilt, and is a
prominent feature of the Nagasaki tour.
After
the terror bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the victorious Allies
moved promptly to try Japanese officials for their "war crimes".
From 1945-51 several thousand Japanese military men were found guilty
of war crimes by an International Military Tribunal which met in Tokyo
from 1946 to 1948. Twenty-eight Japanese military and civilian leaders
were accused of having engaged in conspiracy to commit atrocities. The
dissenting member of the Tokyo tribunal, Judge Radhabinod of India,
dismissed the charge that Japanese leaders had conspired to commit
atrocities, stating that a stronger case might be made against the
victors, because the decision to use the atomic bomb resulted in
indiscriminate murder.
A
very popular movie in Japan today is Pride, The Fateful Moment, which
shows Prime Minister General Hideki Tojo in a favorable light. With six
others, he was hanged in 1968 as a war criminal. During his trial, his
lawyers stated to the International Tribunal for the Far East, the
Asian version of Nuremberg Trials, that Tojo's war crimes could not
begin to approach the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. The prosecutors immediately objected, and censored their
statements. That was the last time there was any official recognition
of the atomic bomb massacres in Japan. Japanese officials have been
effectively prevented from taking any stand on this matter because the
American military occupation, which officially ended in 1952 with the
Treaty with Japan, was quietly continued. Today, 49,000 American troops
are still stationed in Japan, and there is no public discussion of the
crimes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
AMERICAN
MILITARY AUTHORITIES SAY ATOMIC BOMB UNNECESSARY
The
most authoritative Air Force unit during World War II was the U.S.
Strategic Bombing Survey, which selected targets on the basis of need,
and which analyzed the results for future missions. In Hiroshima's
Shadow, the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey report of July 1, 1946
states, "The Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs did not defeat
Japan, nor by the testimony of the enemy leaders who ended the war did
they persuade Japan to accept unconditional surrender. The Emperor, the
lord privy seal, the prime minister, the foreign minister, and the navy
minister had decided as early as May 1945 that the war should be ended
even if it meant acceptance of defeat on allied terms.... It is the Survey's
opinion that certainly prior to December 1, 1945 and in all probability
prior to November 1, 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the
atomic bombs had not been dropped and even if no invasion had been
planned or contemplated."
Both
military, political and religious leaders spoke out against the atomic
bombing of Japanese civilians. The Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ in America issued a formal statement in March 1946 (cited by
Gar Alperowitz):
"The
surprise bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are morally indefensible.
Both bombings must be judged to have been unnecessary for winning the
war. As the power that first used the atomic bomb under these
circumstances, we have sinned grievously against the laws of God and against
the people of Japan."-Commission on the Relation of the Church to
the War in the Light of the Christian Faith.
On
p.438, Gar Alperowitz quotes James M. Gillis, editor of Catholic World,
"I would call it a crime were it not that the word 'crime' implies sin,
and sin requires a consciousness of guilt. The action taken by the
Untied States government was in defiance of every sentiment and every
conviction upon which our civilization is based."
One
of the most vociferous critics of the atomic bombings was David
Lawrence, founder and editor of U.S. News and World Report. He signed a
number of stinging editorials, the first on August 17, 1945.
"Military
necessity will be our constant cry in answer to criticism, but it will
never erase from our minds the simple truth, that we, of all civilized
nations, though hesitating to use poison gas, did not hesitate to employ
the most destructive weapon of all times indiscriminately against men,
women and children." On October 5, Lawrence continued his attack,
"The United States should be the first to condemn the atomic bomb
and apologize for its use against Japan. Spokesmen for the Army Air
Forces said it wasn't necessary and that the war had been won already.
Competent testimony exists to prove that Japan was seeking to surrender
many weeks before the atomic bomb came." On November 23, Lawrence
wrote, "The truth is we are guilty. Our conscience as a nation
must trouble us. We must confess our sin. We have used a horrible
weapon to asphyxiate and cremate more than 100,000 men, women and
children in a sort of super-lethal gas chamber- and all this in a war
already won or which spokesman for our Air Forces tell us we could have
readily won without the atomic bomb. We ought, therefore, to apologize
in unequivocal terms at once to the whole world for our misuse of the
atomic bomb."
David
Lawrence was an avowed conservative, a successful businessman, who knew
eleven presidents of the United States intimately, and was awarded the
Medal of Freedom by President Richard M. Nixon, April 22, 1970.
ANOTHER
EISENHOWER SPEAKS
Although
Eisenhower never changed his opinion of the use of the atomic bomb,
during his presidency he repeatedly voiced his opinion, as quoted by
Steve Neal, The Eisenhowers Doubleday, 1978. P.225, "Ike would
never lose his scepticism of the weapon and later referred to it as a
'hellish contrivance'."
His
brother, Milton Eisenhower, a prominent educator, was even more vocal
on this subject. As quoted by Gar Alperwitz, p.358, Milton Eisenhower
said, "Our employment of this new force at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
was a supreme provocation to other nations, especially the Soviet
Union. Moreover, its use violated the normal standards of warfare by
wiping out entire populations, mostly civilians, in the target cities.
Certainly what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki will forever be on
the conscience of the American people."
During
his Presidency, Dwight Eisenhower tried to find peaceful uses for
atomic energy. In The Eisenhower Diaries, p.261, we find that "The
phrase 'atoms for peace' entered the lexicon of international affairs
with a speech by Eisenhower before the United Nations December 8,
1953." Control of atomic energy had now given the New World Order
clique enormous power, and Eisenhower, in his farewell speech to the
American people on leaving the Presidency In Review (Doubleday, 1969),
on January 17, 1961, warned, "In the councils of government we
must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether
sought or unsought, by the miliary-industrial complex. The potential
for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will
persist."
By
failing to name the power behind the military-industrial complex, the
international bankers, Eisenhower left the American people in the dark as
to he was actually warning them against. To this day they do not
understand what he was trying to say, that the international bankers,
the Zionists and the Freemasons had formed an unholy alliance whose
money and power could not be overcome by righteous citizens of the
United States.
MACARTHUR'S
WARNING
General
Douglas MacArthur also tried to warn the American people of this
threat, as quoted in American Ceaser, by William Manchester, Little
Brown, 1978, p.692, "In 1957, he lashed out at large Pentagon
budgets. 'Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear-kept
us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave
national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble
us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the
exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem
never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real."
This
was the restatement of Senator Vandenberg's famous comment, "We have
to scare the hell out of 'em."
THE
NEW ATOMIC AGE
The
scientists who had built the atomic bomb were gleeful when they
received the news of its success at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the
book, Robert Oppenheimer, Dark Prince, by Jack Rummel, 1992, we find,
p.96, "Back in the United States the news of the bombing of
Hiroshima was greeted with a mixture of relief, pride, joy, shock and
sadness. Otto Frisch remembers the shouts of joy, 'Hiroshima has been
destroyed!' 'Many of my friends were rushing to the telephone to book
tables at the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe in order to celebrate.
Oppenheimer walked around "like a prizefighter, clasping his hands
together above his head as he came to the podium".'"
Oppenheimer
had been a lifelong Communist. "He was heavily influenced by
Soviet Communism ": A New Civilization, by Sidney and Beatrice Webb,
the founders of Fabian Socialism in England. He became director of
research at the newly formed U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, with his
mentor, Bernard Baruch, serving as chairman. Oppenheimer continued his
many Communist Party Associations; his wife was Kitty Peuning, widow of
Joe Dallet, an American Communist who had been killed defending
Communism with the notorious Lincoln Brigade in Spain. Because
Oppenheimer was under Party discipline, the Party then ordered him to
marry Kitty Peuning and make a home for her.
Baruch
resigned from the Atomic Energy Commission to attend to his business
interests. He was replaced by Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, of Kuhn, Loeb
Co. Strauss was apprised of Oppenheimer's many Communist associations,
but he decided to overlook them until he found that Oppenheimer was
sabotaging progress on developing the new and much more destructive hydrogen
bomb. It seemed apparent that Oppenheimer was delaying the hydrogen
bomb until the Soviet Union could get its own version on line. Furious
at the betrayal, he asked Oppenheimer to resign as director of the
Commission. Oppenheimer refused. Strauss then ordered that he be tried.
A hearing was held from April 5 to May 6, 1954. After reviewing the
results, the Atomic Energy Commission voted to strip Oppenheimer of his
security clearance, ruling that he "possessed substantial defects
of character and imprudent dangerous associations with known
subversives".
Oppenheimer
retired to Princeton, where his mentor, Albert Einstein, presided over
the Institute for Advanced Study, a think tank for refugee
"geniuses", financed by the Rothschilds through one of their many
secret foundations. Oppenheimer was already a trustee of the Institute,
were he remained until his death in 1966.
THE
REBIRTH OF ISRAEL
Einstein
considered the atomic age merely as a stage for the rebirth of Israel.
On p.760 of Einstein; His Life And Times we find that Abba Eban,
the Israeli Ambassador, came to his home with the Israeli consul,
Reuben Dafni. He later wrote, "Professor Einstein told me that he
saw the rebirth of Israel as one of the few political acts in his
lifetime which had an essential moral quality. He believed that the
conscience of the world should, therefore, be involved in Israel's
preservation." by Ronald W. Clarke, Avon Books 1971.
On
March 1, 1946, Army Air Force Contract No. MX-791 was signed, creating
the RAND Corporation as an official think tank, defining Project RAND as
"a continuing program of scientific study and research on the
broad subject of air warfare with the object of recommending to the Air
Force preferred methods of techniques and instrumentalities for this
purpose." On May 14, 1948, RAND Corporation funding was taken over
by H. Rowan Gaither, head of the Ford Foundation. This was done because
the Air Force had sole control of the atomic bomb, RAND Corp. developed
the Air Force and atomic bomb program for the Cold War, with the
Strategic Air Command, the missile program, and many other elements of
the "terror strategy". It became a billion dollar game for
these scientists, with John von Neumann, their leading scientist,
becoming world famous as the inventor of "game theory", in which
the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a worldwide
"game" to see which would be the first to attack the other
with nuclear missiles. In the United States, the schools held daily
bomb drills, with the children hiding under their desks. No one told
them that thousands of schools children in Hiroshima had been
incinerated in their classrooms; the desks offered no protection
against nuclear weapons. The moral effect on the children was
devastating. If they were to be vaporized in the next ten seconds,
there seemed little reason to study, marry and have children, or
prepare for a steady job. This demoralization through the nuclear
weapons program is the undisclosed reason for the decline in public
morality.
In
1987, Phyllis LaFarge published The Strangelove Legacy, The Impact Of
The Nuclear Threat On Children, chronicling through extended research
the moral devastation wreaked on the children by the daily threat of
annihilation. She quotes Freeman Dyson, who stated the world has been
divided into two worlds, the world of the warriors, and the world of
the victims, the children. It was William L. Laurence, sitting in the
co-pilot's seat of a B-29 over Nagasaki, and the children waiting to be
vaporized below. This situation has not changed.
THE
LEGAL ASPECTS OF NUCLEAR WARFARE
Because
Japan was occupied by the U.S. Military in 1945, the Japanese
Government was never allowed any opportunity to file any legal charges
about the use of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although
Japanese leaders were tried and executed for "war crimes" no
one was ever charged for the atomic bombings. It was not until 1996
that the World Court delivered an opinion on the use of nuclear
weapons, (p.565, Hiroshima's Shadows) "In July 1996, the World
court took a stand in its first formal opinion on the legality of
nuclear weapons. Two years earlier, the United Nations had asked the
Court for an advisory opinion. The General Assembly of the United
Nations posed a single, yet profoundly basic, question for consideration.
It the threat of use of nuclear weapons on any circumstances permitted
under international law? For the first time, the world's pre-eminent
judicial authority has considered the question of criminality vis-a-vis
the use of a nuclear weapon, and, in doing so, it has come to the
conclusion that the use of a nuclear weapon is 'unlawful'. It is also
the Court's view that even the threat of the use of a nuclear weapon is
illegal. Although there were differences concerning the implications of
the right of self-defense provided by Article 51 of the U.N. Charter,
ten of the fourteen judges hearing the case found the use of threat to
use a nuclear weapon to be illegal on the basis of the existing canon
of humanitarian law which governs the conduct of armed conflict. The
judges based their opinion on more than a century of treatise and
conventions that are collectively known as the 'Hague' and 'Geneva' laws."
Thus
the Court ruled that nuclear weapons are illegal under the Hague and
Geneva conventions , agreements which were in existence at the time of
the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. They were illegal then, and they
are illegal now.
GANDHI
SPEAKS
Among
world leaders who spoke out about the United States' use of atomic
weapons in Japan, Mahatma Gandhi echoed the general climate of opinion.
P.258, Hiroshima's Shadow: "The atomic bomb has deadened the
finest feelings which have sustained mankind for ages. There used to be
so-called laws of war which made it tolerable. Now we understand the
naked truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic
bomb brought an empty victory to the Allied armies. It has resulted for
the time being in the soul of Japan being destroyed. What has happened
to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see. Truth
needs to be repeated as long as there are men who do not believe
it."
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THE
COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
Eustace
C. Mullins, Ezra Pound World Peace Foundation Japanese-American
Friendship Society and the People of Japan,
Plaintiffs,
The
United States Government, Defendant.
The
plaintiffs bring this action before the World Court of International
Justice to resolve the following charges:
1.
Defendant conspired to commit war crimes against the people of
Japan during World War II.
2.
Defendant conspired to commit atrocities against the people of
Japan during World War II.
3.
Defendant conspired to subsequently evade and cover up these crimes
by militarily occupying the nation of Japan, effectively preventing the
people of Japan from seeking legal recourse for the actions of
defendant. Defendant continues to militarily occupy Japan today, with
49,999 troops stationed there, on the pretext that the Soviet Union
might attack. This pretext ignores the geopolitical fact that the
Soviet Union collapsed in 1989 and does not pose a threat to anyone.
4.
Defendant conspired to commit crimes of genocide against the people
of Japan, motivated by racial hatred and religious bigotry.
5.
Defendant violated the Hague agreements and the Geneva Convention,
as determined by the World Court in June 1996, by making war
against civilians and inflicting millions of casualties by firebombing
Japanese cities and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during
World War II.
6.
After committing these crimes, defendant conspired to cover up
these crimes by issuing a number of false statements, denying war
crimes, and distortions of fact to evade any punishment for these war
crimes.
7.
Defendant also conspired to conceal from the American people the
circumstances behind the commission of these war crimes, that a small
group of conspirators, refugees from Europe, came to the United States
and infiltrated the government of the United States, and in total
secrecy launched the project to manufacture an atomic bomb for use
against Germany and Japan. At no time during this conspiracy were the
people of the United States aware of what was taking place, nor
consulted for their approval, in violation of republican'principles and
the Constitution of the United States.
8.
Since World War II, defendant has conducted a worldwide program
of atomic terrorism, called atomic diplomacy, to ensure that its
program continues unabated, and without punishment.
9.
Although Japan had been reduced to ashes by June 1945, defendant
insisted that an invasion was necessary, while ignoring peace tenders
from Japan since May 1945, and defendant further claimed that the
American military would suffer one million war dead while invading
Japan, and that it was necessary to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima,
August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. In fact, as Admiral
William D. Leahy pointed out in his book, I Was There, "the
invasion itself was never authorized." General Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Supreme Military Commander, Admiral William D. Leahy, Air
force General Curtis LeMay, and many other American military leaders,
made public statements that it was not necessary to drop the atomic
bombs. Political considerations dictated that it be dropped on Japan, in
order to test it on a living population, and, if possible, to
"tally" a million or more victims with the bombs, for the
purpose of postwar intimidation of all other nations.
10.
The atomic bomb was the creation of a small group of European
refugees, whose efforts to develop such a bomb in Europe had been
indignantly rejected. Albert Einstein, the physicist, wrote
a personal letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, August 2, 1939,
recommending that this bomb be built by the United States. His letter
was hand-delivered to Roosevelt by Alexander Sachs, a Wall Street
speculator. The atomic bomb program was directed from behind the
scenes by another Wall Street speculator, Bernard Baruch, an agent of
the Rothschilds. Baruch selected Major General Leslie Groves as
the director of the project, and J. Robert Oppenheimer as science
director of the program. Baruch continued to issue directives
throughout the program, insisting to Major General Groves that the city
of Kyoto be the primary target of the atomic bombs. Military
leaders opposed this selection, pointing out that Kyoto was the ancient
capital of Japan, and a religious center with more than two hundred
ancient temples. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were finally chosen, although
neither of these cities offered a primary military target. Baruch
continued to dictate decisions on the atomic bomb, through the
President's National Defense Research Committee, chaired by Baruch's
Washington representative, James F. Byrnes.
11.
After the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, defendant
perpetrated a number of outright falsehoods to avoid blame for these
massacres of civilians. The first was that the inhabitants were warned
by leaflets dropped over the city that an atomic bomb would be used. In
fact, the leaflets were not dropped until August 10, after
the bombs had exploded. The President's Committee had
resolved on May 31, 1945 that "we could not give the Japanese any
warning." The second falsehood was that an invasion of Japan would
be necessary if the atomic bomb was not used; this would cost a million
American lives. Many leading American military authorities state
this is absolutely false. The third falsehood was that both cities were
"key military targets". President Truman boasted in his
private papers that "in 1945 I had ordered the atomic bomb dropped
on Japan at two places devoted almost exclusively to war
production."
In
fact, more than 95% of the dead at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were
civilians. Only 4.4% of the death toll was made up of military
personnel. A fourth falsehood, printed in the New York Times September
5, 1945, was that the victims had suffered no radiation damage. This
story was written by William L. Laurence, the paid propagandist for the
War Department with exclusive rights to material on the atomic bomb.
Laurence quoted Major General Groves that the Japanese "are
attempting to create sympathy for themselves".
12.
The Legation of Switzerland in Tokyo forwarded to the defendant a
statement from the Japanese government, the complaint that "the city
of Hiroshima is a provincial town without any protection or
military installations of any kind, but also none of the neighboring
regions or towns constitutes a military objective." Observers on
the scene recorded that "strictly military damage was
insignificant."
13.
The most authoritative official United States unit during World War
II was the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, which selected targets and
analyzed the results of the bombings for the benefit of future
missions. Their report of July 1, 1946 states, "the
Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs did not defeat Japan, nor by the testimony
of the enemy leaders who ended the war did they persuade Japan to
accept unconditional surrender. The Emperor, the lord privy seal, the
prime minister, the foreign minister, and the navy minister had decided
as early as May 1945 that the war should be ended even if it meant
acceptance of defeat on allied terms... It is the Survey's opinion that
certainly prior to December 1, 1945, and in all probability prior to
November 1, 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs
had not been dropped and even if no invasion had been
planned or contemplated."
14.
This proves that the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war
crimes deliberately committed, with foreknowledge that it was not
necessary to drop the atomic bombs on these two cities. As David
Lawrence, founder and editor of U.S. News And World Report, wrote in
his editorial November 23, 1945, "the truth is we are guilty.
Our conscience as a nation must trouble us. We must confess our
sin. We have used a horrible weapon to asphyxiate and cremate more than
100,000 men, women and children in a sort of super-lethal gas
chamber--and all this in a war already won or which spokesman for our
Air Forces tell us we could have readily won without the atomic
bomb."
15.
The world leader and pacifist Mahatma Gandhi spoke sadly about
the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "The atomic bomb has
deadened the finest feelings which have sustained mankind for ages.
There used to be so-called laws of war which made it tolerable. Now we
understand the naked truth. War knows no law except that of might. The
atomic bomb brought an empty victory to the Allied armies. It has
resulted for the time being in the soul of Japan being destroyed.
What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too
early to see."
16.
Defendant is in violation of the Geneva Convention. Protocol
2, Scope of Application of Humanitarian Law, states: 1.
"International humanitarian law is applicable to international
armed conflicts. The international law of peace existing between
the states concerned will thus be large superseded by the rules of international
humanitarian law.... A state can not, therefore, be allowed to invoke
military necessity as a justification for upsetting that balance by
departing from those rules."
17.
IV. Humanitarian Requirements and Military Necessity. "In war,
a belligerent many apply only that amount and kind of force necessary
to defeat the enemy. Acts of war are only permissible if they are
directed against military objectives, if they are not likely to cause
unnecessary suffering, and if they are not perfidious." The
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki clearly falls outside the scope of
this ruling, being civilian targets, the bombing caused unnecessary
suffering, and defendant's attempted justification was openly
perfidious.
18.
129. If an act of war is not expressly prohibited by international
agreements or customary law, this does not necessarily mean that it is
actually permissible. The so-called Martens Clause, developed by the
Livonian professor Friedrich von Martens (1845-1909) delegate of Tsar
Nicholas II at the Hague Peace Conferences, which has been included in
the Preamble to the 1907 Hague Convention IV and reaffirmed in the
1977 Additional Protocal I as stated below, will always be applicable.
In cases not covered by the Protocol or by
other international agreement, civilians and combatants remain
under the protection and authority of the principles of international
law derived from established custom, from the principles of humanity,
and from the dictates of public conscience. (Artl., pars. 2 AP
1; see also Preamble pars. 4 AP II)
19.
Protocol I-Part IV. Section i. "....the obligation of the
Parties to the conflict to 'at all times distinguish between the
civilian population and combatants'." Article 48-Basic rule,
"the prohibition of 'indiscriminate attacks'." Article
51-Protection of the civilian population, paragraph 4, in
particular "an attack by bombardment by any
method or means which treats as a single military objective a number of
clearly separated and distinct military objectives, located in a city,
town, village or other area containing a similar concentration of
civilians or civilian objects" (Article 51-Protection of the
civilian population paragraph 5 (a) and "an attack which may be
expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to
civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which
would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military
advantage anticipated (article 51-Protection of the civilian population,
paragraph 5 [b]).
20.
Protocal I-Part IV, Section 1. "Protection of civilians
from arbitrary and oppressive enemy action, outlined in 1899, and later
in 1907, was expressed in its most complete form in the Fourth Geneva
Convention of 1949, which is now supplemented by this Protocol.
WHEREFORE,
the plaintiffs respectfully move this Court to hear these charges of
conspiracy to commit war crimes and atrocities, conspiracy to cover up
their crimes, motivated by racial hatred and religious bigotry, and
having intimidated the government of Japan and prevented them from
seeking any redress for these crimes, and by defendant's ongoing
program of atomic terrorism, perfidious falsehoods, and their
continuing conspiracy to cover up crimes of genocide, mass murder and
undue suffering among their victims, and that the Court shall hear
these charges, decide upon appropriate damages, and punishment for the
offenders.
Respectfully
submitted,
Eustace
C. Mullins
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