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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 469
The Hidden Reason for Use of the Atomic Bomb
Dr. Shuntaro Hida is a first hand witness of the devastation caused by atomic weapons.
He was in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped. He treated many victims of the
bombing of Hiroshima, both those who were victims of the blast and those who were victims of
the radiation. Dr. Hida did some research as to why his city was bombed and he discovered it had
been preserved as an atomic bomb target. He writes:
By this stage [early 1945] many large cities in Japan had been subjected to
heavy air raids by the American Air Force and had suffered terrible destruction
from fire bombings. It was strange to us that Hiroshima had never been bombed
despite the fact that the B-29 bombers flew over the city every day. Only after the
war did I come to know that Hiroshima, according to American archives, had
been kept untouched in order to preserve it as a target for the use of nuclear
weapons.
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Perhaps if the American administration and its military authorities had
paid sufficient regard to the terrible nature of the fiery demon which mankind had
discovered and yet knew so little about its consequences, the American authorities
might never have used such a weapon against the 750,000 Japanese who
ultimately became its victims.
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There were a total of four cities preserved as potential targets for the atomic bomb. These
were Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, and Nagasaki. “Of Japan’s 66 biggest cities, 59 had been
mostly destroyed. 178 square miles of urban dwellings had been burned, 500,000 died in the
fires, and now twenty million Japanese were homeless.” “On March 9 and 10, 1945, 325 B-29s
had burned thirty-five square miles of Tokyo, leaving more than one hundred thousand Japanese
dead in the ensuing firestorm.”
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Presumably, because there was no conventional bombing on
the four cities that were potential atomic bomb targets, they would be looked at as safe havens by
the Japanese. Refugees fleeing from other bombed out cities would have swelled their
populations. This would enable the atomic bomb to achieve an even higher body count.
Astonishingly, Secretary of State James Byrnes revealed that indeed the atomic bomb
was not used to end the war. Byrnes said that the real reason the bomb was used was “to make
Russia more manageable in Europe.” Using the bomb for this purpose would constitute a war
crime. According to Charles Mee Jr., in an article in American Heritage, this is probably the
reason “that Truman insisted to his death, and in obstinate defiance to all other opinion, that” the
dropping of the bomb “was militarily necessary.”
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In May of 1945 the original delegates to the United Nations met in San Francisco at the
Fairmont Hotel
to write the U.N. charter. This charter was in actuality the constitution of the
U.N. The architects of the U.N. had hoped that this would be the constitution for the new world
government. During the meetings the head of the American delegation, Secretary of State
Edward Stettinius Jr., called a secret meeting with three powerful Associates. These were Alger
Hiss, W. Averill Harriman and John Foster Dulles. It doesn’t seem possible that you could find
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