Editor & Publisher: U.S. covered up Hiroshima footage

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

SPECIAL REPORT: Hiroshima Film Cover-up Exposed

By Greg Mitchell

Published: August 03, 2005 10:00 PM ET

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001001583

NEW YORK In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan almost 60 years ago, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This included footage shot by U.S. military crews and Japanese newsreel teams. In addition, for many years all but a handful of newspaper photographs were seized or prohibited.

The public did not see any of the newsreel footage for 25 years, and the U.S. military film remained hidden for nearly four decades.

The full story of this atomic cover-up is told fully for the first time today at E&P Online, as the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings approaches later this week. Some of the long-suppressed footage will be aired on televison this Saturday.

Six weeks ago, E&P broke the story that articles written by famed Chicago Daily News war correspondent George Weller about the effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki were finally published, in Japan, almost six decades after they had been spiked by U.S. officials. This drew national attention, but suppressing film footage shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was even more significant, as this country rushed into the nuclear age with its citizens having neither a true understanding of the effects of the bomb on human beings, nor why the atomic attacks drew condemnation around the world.

[JDPriestly]

1. To think about in light of the suppression of the torture photos.

We have the right to know the consequences of our government's actions. We have the right to know if the Bush administration has issued policies that led our soldiers to torture prisoners.
It is essential in a democracy that we know the truth and the whole truth about the consequences of our government's policies and actions.

[Zan_of_Texas]

5. Don't read this if you are sensitive.

Many years ago I read first-hand accounts by people who had been in the cities bombed with nuclear blasts.

I would say it's the worst thing I have ever read about, bar none.

One description that stayed with me -- it's been decades -- was how one person saw another person's face actually slide off.

<shudder>

Use of nuclear weapons is a crime against humanity, the planet, religion -- you name it. It exceeds any verbiage you can come up with.

Who has nuclear weapons? Not Iraq. Not Iran.

Who has used nuclear weapons? Not Iraq. Not Iran. Not Syria. Not Russia.

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Our Hidden WMD Program
Why Bush is spending so much on nuclear weapons

By Fred Kaplan
Posted Friday, April 23, 2004, at 3:41 PM PT
SLATE
http://slate.msn.com/id/2099425/

The budget is busted; American soldiers need more armor; they're running out of supplies. Yet the Department of Energy is spending an astonishing $6.5 billion on nuclear weapons this year, and President Bush is requesting $6.8 billion more for next year and a total of $30 billion over the following four years. This does not include his much-cherished missile-defense program, by the way. This is simply for the maintenance, modernization, development, and production of nuclear bombs and warheads.

Measured in "real dollars" (that is, adjusting for inflation), this year's spending on nuclear activities is equal to what Ronald Reagan spent at the height of the U.S.-Soviet standoff. It exceeds by over 50 percent the average annual sum ($4.2 billion) that the United States spent-again, in real dollars-throughout the four and a half decades of the Cold War.

There is no nuclear arms race going on now. The world no longer offers many suitable nuclear targets. President Bush is trying to persuade other nations-especially "rogue regimes"-to forgo their nuclear ambitions. Yet he is shoveling money to U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories as if the Soviet Union still existed and the Cold War still raged. more

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The Sorrows of Empire, by Chalmers Johnson, p. 64

At the beginning of the 21st century, the US nuclear arsenal contained:

8 5,400 multiple-megaton warheads atop intercontinental ballistic missles;

8 1750 nuclear bombs and cruise missiles ready to be launched from B-2 and B-52 bombers;

8 and 1,670 nuclear weapons classified as "tactical."

8 Plus, an additional 10,000 or so nuclear warheads stored in bunkers around the US.

So, the US has a total of 8,820 ... plus 10,000 in storage.

[jaxx]

2. And so the fools who say make it a parking lot, level it have no idea what

they're talking about. Just play war and win. I detest war.

[yodermon]

3. VERY interesting

kicking and nominating; can I hear a second?

[mattclearing]

4. Done.