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Using that disclosure and degree of interest, now is the time to challenge the Pentagon’s euphemistic “nuclear modernization” program (which is actually a plan for massive nuclear expansion both quantitatively and qualitatively), to expose the folly of militarism abandoning the urgent, urgent needs of humanity, to continue filling the pockets of military contractors with the infinite budget of the Pentagon, in this case one trillion 700 billion (million million) dollars.
Why in 1945 Harry S. Truman authorized the use of the atomic bomb against Japan and in 1951 disavowed it against Korea DPR and the nascent China PR?
The 1944 United States presidential election was the fortieth since independence. The Electoral College in charge of deciding the president and vice president was made up of 531 members, so the vote of 266 voters was needed to win them.
These elections took place during the last stage of World War II. Whereas in 1940, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s run for a third consecutive term had been the subject of much controversy, by 1944 there was little doubt that he would run for a fourth time. He got the nomination easily. However, as he was facing serious health problems, the Democratic Party denied re-election to Vice President Henry A. Wallace, considered a “leftist” figure, a potential deepener of Roosevelt’s reforms, due to the serious possibility that he would reach the presidency. Instead, the Democratic nominee was Harry S. Truman, a truly gray senator, who was nominated with just 626 votes at that party’s convention. The opposition Republican Party fielded Thomas E. Dewey, who in 1942 had won a historic gubernatorial victory in New York, Roosevelt’s home state, with John W. Bricker as his running mate. The Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry S. Truman Democratic Party ticket won the election, but its Republican opponents drew more than 45 percent of the popular vote. The claim was to end the war, rationing and bring more than 10 million American fighters back to their homes.
In April 1945, Roosevelt died and was succeeded as president by Truman, who (as with Kamala Harris today) was not well remembered by people, nor did she have any popular ties outside her native Missouri. The people had voted for Roosevelt, not for Truman.
The political imperative within the American people for the end of the war increased exponentially, when the Red Army took Berlin, and with the bloody battles of Iwojima and Okinawa, small islands (the first is about two thirds of South Key Largo and the second, 55 percent of the Isla de la Juventud, to get an idea) of which 99 percent of Americans had never heard of, where tens of thousands of Americans and more than 150,000 Japanese died. It should not be forgotten that the US had 405,399 deaths during the entire Second World War (less than small or medium-sized countries such as Poland, Yugoslavia, Hungary or Romania), so having tens of thousands of deaths from capturing small islands insignificant, it was completely unacceptable to the people.
Truman learned the details of Operation Downfall for the invasion of Japan, scheduled in two main parts: Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu, and later Operation Coronet, the invasion of Honshu near Tokyo, with the following schedule of military actions:
– November 1945. American troops would land in Kyushu, which was expected to be conquered in the middle of the following year, and which would serve as the base for the rest of the campaign. The USA. they would use up to a million soldiers to conquer the island.
– 1946. US troops. and his allies attack Tokyo, to divide the enemy forces into two halves, one south of Honshū and one in Shikoku; the other in northern Honshū and in Hokkaidō. The landings would begin around March 1, and would include more than 1.5 million troops, mainly from the US.
– 1947-1948. Conquest of the rest of the Japanese islands, eventual surrender of Japan. In total, between 400,000 and 800,000 Americans were expected to die during Operation Downfall.
The idea of doubling and probably tripling the number of his casualties in World War II and extending it to 1947–1948 was completely unacceptable to Truman. For this reason, during the Potsdam Conference (from July 17 to August 2, 1945) he insisted on the immediate entry of the Soviet Union into that war.
When Truman arrived in Potsdam, he received the news that the Trinity nuclear test had been carried out “successfully.” He informed Joseph V. Stalin that the “United States had a new bomb of enormous power.” Stalin, as we say in Cuba, “played dumb” showing that he believed it was a larger and more powerful conventional bomb and not a weapon based on a new physical principle, but he had clear information on the entire “Manhattan Project” provided by Soviet intelligence and scientists. He agreed to enter the war against Japan at the earliest.
The decision to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was essentially political speculation, both to frighten the Soviet Union and to prevent Truman’s certain defeat in the 1948 elections if the war against Japan dragged on too long and with heavy casualties. americans. In such a scenario, the victory of Thomas. E. Dewey was practically certain. None of that is shown in the movie “Oppenheimer” nor could it be in reality, but it is important to know.
The 1948 United States presidential election gave President Harry S. Truman a second presidential term, in a narrow victory over Dewey. The “Democrats” were divided into three irreconcilable factions: While the majority of the party supported Truman, the most right-wing groups nominated Strom Thurmond, a defender of racial segregation, and the most “liberal” sectors supported the candidacy of former Vice President Henry A. Wallace, the true follower of Roosevelt’s ideology.
But things change in history. Several years later, on November 5, 1950, the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff issued orders for retaliatory atomic bombing of PRC military bases in Manchuria if any of its armies crossed into Korea or if the planes of the People’s Republic of China or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea attacked from there. President Truman ordered the transfer of nine Mark 4 nuclear bombs “to the Ninth Air Force Group, . . . and signed an order to use them against Chinese and Korean targets,” which he never forwarded for effect. Quite the contrary, what he did was remove the super promoter of the atomic attacks on PR China, Douglas McArthur, who could have been a “victorious” Republican presidential candidate. After his second term, Truman could not be reelected.
Despite the greater destructive power that atomic weapons would bring, their effects in determining the outcome of the war would probably not have been as great as thought, although terribly bloody. Tactically, given the dispersed nature of the Chinese PR and Korean DPR armed forces, the relatively small infrastructure of preparation and logistics centers, and the limited number of bombs available (most would have been retained for potential use). against the Soviets in Eastern Europe), atomic attacks would have limited effects against China’s ability to mobilize and move military forces. Strategically, attacking Chinese cities to destroy civilian industry and infrastructure would elicit huge support for the government from Chinese civilians. Since the Soviets were not expected to intervene with their then few atomic weapons to defend China or North Korea, the threat of a possible nuclear exchange was not important in the decision not to use those bombs.
When Eisenhower succeeded Truman in early 1953, he was equally cautious about the use of nuclear weapons in Korea. The administration prepared contingency plans to use against China, but like Truman, the new president feared that doing so would result in Soviet attacks on Japan. The Korean War ended as it began, without the use of US nuclear weapons.
Truman used the atomic bomb against Japan and did not against Korea and China for the same reasons of domestic politicking as well as global strategic considerations. Today we see how considerations about the vote of the state of Florida have pre-eminence in the decision-making about the relations between the United States and Cuba (and also about the policy towards Venezuela and Nicaragua). The political struggle for political power between the Democratic and Republican factions of the single party of capitalism in the United States is disproportionately important in matters of global importance.
Today, the world is replete with nuclear weapons. This is the time to challenge the euphemistic “nuclear modernization program,” to expose the folly of militarism that abandons the urgent needs of ordinary people, to line the pockets of Pentagon military contractors.
This is the time to demand a ceasefire and peace talks to end the war in Ukraine fairly and equitably, halt preparations for war with China, finally pass legislation to ban the first use of nuclear weapons, and comply with the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and other actions that lead to a climate of peace.
Taken from Latin Press
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