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Enduring mythology about these mass civilian slaughters warps thinking about U.S. militarism, writes Brian McGlinchey. By Brian McGlinchey starkrealities.substack.com The anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki present an opportunity to demolish a cornerstone myth of
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
Today of all days should be remembered! It is a sweltering Sunday and 78 years ago today the US dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan which some say made the war come to an end. There has been a debate lately around the use of these bombs....were they truly necessary? The anniversaries of the…
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More than 300,000 German civilians were killed by Allied strategic bombing in World War II. It was thought that it would break the German economy, but when U.S. economists surveyed its material consequences, they found, to their surprise, that it had impeded German industry only very little. Strategic bombing was, in the words of J.K. Galbraith, “perhaps the greatest miscalculation of the war.” The fact that little was gained by it should compound our horror, though, in the scope of the war and the emotions at play, it rarely does.