The United States was at war, we were in it because Japan attacked our Navy in 1941 in Pearl Harbor. I offer this information for anyone who does not know the history behind the United States using Weapons of Mass Destruction. The United States is the only country to use nuclear, actually hydrogen bombs, on people.
The United States let the "genie" out of the bottle. The world will end with the nuclear bombs we developed. Nice legacy.
The United states dropped two bombs, one 6 August, one 9 August, killing at least 129,000 people. One bomb was a uranium gun-type, the other a plutonium implosion-type. The radiation of U-235 half-life is estimated at 700 million years, U-239 at 24,000 years.
"Why Worry About Fukushima When Hiroshima and Nagasaki Are Safe?"
By Patrick Takahashi,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-takahashi/why-worry-about-fukushima_b_847250.html
"I asked for and received several pages from the Hiroshima Peace Museum regarding this issue. To quote:
“Today, the background radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the same as the average amount of natural radiation present anywhere on Earth. It is not enough to affect human health.”
Part of the answer is that these bombs exploded high up in the air and all the radioactive material blew or rained away... somewhere. I guess.
But, Little Boy over Hiroshima was only about 1% efficient, so what happened to the 139 pounds of the U-235 that were particularized? From all reports, the plume dissipated over land and sea. Same for Nagasaki and the 12 pounds of Pu-239 particles. There was a slight increase of leukemia in the Nagasaki region, but no additional incidence of cancers anywhere in and around Hiroshima. Thus, contrary to any kind of logical sense, while the high altitude (1968 feet for Hiroshima and 1800 feet for Nagasaki) of the nuclear explosions immediately killed 200,000 people, these cities soon became safe, and are thriving today. I’m, actually, still wondering why.
But with respect to the relative long-term danger of nuclear power plants versus ATOMIC BOMBS, another article mentioned that there is a lot more fissionable material in the former compared to the latter. For example, a 1000 MW reactor uses 50,000 pounds of enriched uranium/year and produces 54,000 pounds of waste, which keeps accumulating, so in a 20-year period, there should be more than a million pounds of radioactive material on site. Little Boy had only 141 pounds of U-235, while Fat Man used 14 pounds of Pu-239.
Chernobyl released 200 times more radiation than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, combined. As far away as Scotland, the radiation rose to 10,000 times the norm. Frighteningly, the Fukushima reactors are said to be more dangerous than Chernobyl (Uranium-235) for two reasons: more enriched uranium, and Fukushima #3 has plutonium. At this time, the Fukushima reactors have only emitted about 10% the total radioactivity of Chernobyl, but there seems to be no soon end to this crisis."
Good to know we possibly may not have to fear the fallout of a nuclear war. lol
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DEAD HUMANS!?? THE PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE TO DIE! WHO ARE WE TO KILL SO MANY? AMERICA HAS ALREADY KILLED MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY ON EARTH!
I do think we can find an honest, objective answer, but here are a couple sources.
"US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II"
By James A. Lucas, Global Research, June 24, 2017
Popular Resistance 27 November 2015
Valid opinion? I do not know.
"This study reveals that U.S. military forces were directly responsible for about 10 to 15 million deaths during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and the two Iraq Wars. The Korean War also includes Chinese deaths while the Vietnam War also includes fatalities in Cambodia and Laos.
The American public probably is not aware of these numbers and knows even less about the proxy wars for which the United States is also responsible. In the latter wars there were between nine and 14 million deaths in Afghanistan, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East Timor, Guatemala, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sudan.
But the victims are not just from big nations or one part of the world. The remaining deaths were in smaller ones which constitute over half the total number of nations. Virtually all parts of the world have been the target of U.S. intervention.
The overall conclusion reached is that the United States most likely has been responsible since WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30 million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world."
Then there are drone strikes that kill innocent people, so the military created a term, "collateral damage." Are you kidding me?! People are killed and the terminology used includes the word "damage?"
