Word: hiroshimas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visit Hawaii for the 50th anniversary of the PEARL HARBOR attack, the government of Toshiki Kaifu has been scrambling to avert a fresh round of Japan bashing. Kaifu's advisers have suggested that when Bush travels to Tokyo as scheduled in late November, he pay a respectful call on Hiroshima. Some have even hinted that Bush, a World War II fighter pilot who was shot down by the Japanese in 1944, should take Kaifu with him to Pearl Harbor to symbolize how two old enemies are now allies. But White House officials vehemently oppose the plan. Says one: "The idea...
Westerners, who have wandered through centuries of darkness and enlightenment and rationalism and scientific method and then the various neo- darknesses of the 20th century (Auschwitz, Hiroshima and so on), have some difficulty with these dreamy effects in which reality and illusion float back and forth interchangeably. Americans have a special longing of their own. They need to know they are working in a scheme of virtue. Americans feel a moral unease when they sense that their power is banging around loose in the world without being, in a sort of theological sense, justified. The antiwar slogan "No Blood...
...early 1940s. But the allied attacks on German cities such as Dresden toward the end of World War II are now widely considered unwarranted because it was clear by then that the allies would win. Likewise, some military ethicists today believe the nuclear strikes on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were unjust...
...years the U.S. has tried to convince the rest of the world that its dropping of the bombs that incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an aberration. What's more, the linchpin in Washington's strategy to limit the spread of atomic weapons is a formal promise never to use them against a non- nuclear-armed state. If the U.S. violates its own policy to nuke Iraq, which by all indications does not yet have the Bomb, other countries might rush to develop atomic arms and possibly to use them. At the same time, revulsion over America...
...virtually as much damage to battlefield targets as nukes would. The only sites a nuclear device could eliminate more effectively are cities, for instance Baghdad or Basra. Today's city-aimed missile would not necessarily pack the wallop of Little Boy, the 12.5-kiloton A-bomb that fell on Hiroshima. But even a 2-kiloton package would kill thousands of civilians, violating the most basic rule of war: non-combatants are not fair game...