IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Myth

Socialist Challenge No. 207, 23 July 1981 · p. 6 of the scan · 274 words

The scan: sc-no207.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
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page 6 of the scan

Keloids, thick overof scar tissue ZOWLS which led to a horrible disfiguration of the skin By March the number of people given onca Hibakusnu totalled nearly 370,000. It is not a static figure. Even now there are still-born deaths or infants are boros grolcsuucly dedue to the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The diseases will be passed or to generation after generation.

Despite all the horrors which flowed the dropping of the first atomic bombs, the myth is still peddled that they might have saved lives that the bombings did at least ena Japan. Defeated But even Dwight Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the 'Allied Forces, Dorome US President wa later later to admit that, . Japar was already defeated... wasn'1 niccessaly to hil them that awful thing'. expenditure of American lives, but in order to induce a Japanese surrender the . forthcoming ManSoviet hflyasiul churia had time to take efControl 'If an immediate peace could be obtained, the controi oi japan in the postwar Woro. ane predominant influence in th Asia, TaClC Cas would pertain to the United States alone, viet trammelled claims to intluence. The sudden surrender of would Japan, MOOTCOVCI. underline the immense. atomic power now American disposal.?

So, the bombs dropper on Hiroshima and Nag saki had the purpose of out-influencing the Sovie Union. In that respect they were not so much directed against Japan but as i warning to the Soviet Union. They were a 'preemptive strike' That over a million people died, were injured or have suffereo the effects was, for the United States the price to be paid for the security of US 'democracy'.

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