On the 65th Anniversary of of the Atomic Bomb First Being Used to Kill an Entire City, It's Time to Retire Them
TOM HASTINGS FOR BUZZFLASH
On 6 August 1945 an atomic weapon was used on a city full of civilians. It was a war crime of staggering and eternal proportions, committed against an aggressor nation's children rather than its military.
That attack marked the dawn of an age that needs to close out, the atomic age. We have lived with the nuclear Sword of Damocles suspended over humankind for 65 years and it's past time to retire these weapons of fire and mass death, poisonous beyond any other ever invented. Each nuclear weapon is a crime. Merely owning one is criminal intent and possession of criminal instrumentalia.
At the onset of this nuclearism, a fatal disease if not treated, just a small percent of our species lived in a country with such devastating devices. Now more than half of humanity lives in a nation--the US, Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Israel or Pakistan--with these godawful terrorist tools.
Show me a nuke and I'll show you an offensive weapon. There is nothing defensive about any of them.
Show me a nuke and I'll show you a terrorist weapon. They cannot be contained to military targets and anyone who fires even the smallest atomic weapon knows that thousands of civilians will be killed by the immediate blast effects plus the lingering radiological effects. (Hiroshima mother and baby)
To possess a single atomic bomb or an entire nuclear arsenal is to own illegal terrorist weapons. Facing this knowledge, there is no such thing as legitimate nuclear deterrence. It is notlike threatening other people's children because they are threatening yours, it isexactly that. There is nothing metaphorical about this. It is bald, barenaked terrorism, outlawed by all international rules of warfare and certainly illegal by all standards of decency.
There is not a single valid reason, no ethical support, for owning even one of theses obscene anti-creation, anti-life, satanic bombs.
Sixty-five is the age of retirement. Retire our nuclear weapons, unilaterally, immediately, and without condition. This is the right thing. Enough crimes have been committed. There is nothing ambiguous about this question; we cannot achieve good with evil and each atomic weapon is evil.
Choose morality, spiritual goodness and Life. Dismantle each and every nuke, make reparations to the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and take a sacred vow that their children's lives shall not have been sacrificed in vain. It has taken us too long to learn this, but it is time to grow up and put away the weapons of the immature and dangerous war cultures.
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Tom H. Hastings (pcwtom@gmail.com) is Director of PeaceVoice, a program of the Oregon Peace Institute. He personally (twice) went to a nuclear command facility and dismantled a small portion of the means by which commands to launch nuclear weapons could be made. For these acts of conscience (one in 1985, one in 1996) he willingly served time in jails and prisons.
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A few of us know that new World Order Zionist Jews were in total control of the Nuke programme from the beginning. They wanted desperately to Nuke a large German city with the first bomb,but Germany was going to be out of the war before the bomb was ready. So Japan was to be the target. The Japs tried equally as desperately to surrender but Washington prevented that so as to have an excuse to nuke em. Hiroshima and Nagasaki residents wondered greatly as to why the bombers flying over them to bomb other cities left them alone. They were being set up to receive the big ones. This is the greatest act of criminal intent in our history and we can thank the JEWS for it. Now after 65 years,doesn't it seem like a divine act of judgement is being set up for the most evil regime in all history. If 65 years is the mandatory age of retirement God will see them retired but after one or two final kabooms. After 2000 years of denying CHRIST and murdering unknown millions, GOD is about to pull the plug on the Nation of the JEWS.They are our greatest enemy and threat against world peace and prosperity,but GOD has his plan and it includes the end of the children of "THEIR FATHER THE DEVIL" as JESUS called them to their faces. No wonder they were itching to kill him. The Book of Obadiah is the truthfull outing of the house of ESAU--EDOM as being modern JEWERY,and the 14 chapter of Zechariah is the description of the nuclear destruction of Jerusalem and the Zionist state and all it's leaders.And their time has come full. 2010 is to be the year that the true "HOUSE OF ISRAEL" JOSEPH is to TAKE back the birthrite of the ABRAHAMIC COVENANT with GOD. Look for this likely happening on ROSH HASHANNAH,2010. Then the world will "KNOW THAT I AM GOD" as our Lord told us would happen. This act of DIVINE judgement will also liberate the nations of the earth from the strangle hold of the global Zionist octopus that uses nuclear blackmail to keep us at bay and do as we are told or else. Then we will see a REAL Holocost against the JEWS. Only this one will be richly deserved, because they are literally asking for it. Remember this. GOD is in control and he will NOT allow the murderous House of Esau -Edom to continue uncontested. The passage of the next month or two will tell the tale.Let us hope and pray this is the case.
Nukes
The only comment regarding the morality of nukes is that I'm sure if I were President at the time President Truman ordered them used I would have done the same.
As for removing them from this earth, I agree but there is one really big problem. Once a genie has been let out of the bottle I have never heard of the genie being put back in and I doubt it will happen with nukes.