Friday, June 3, 2016

RSN: Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick | Bombing Hiroshima Changed the World, but It Didn't End WWII



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FOCUS: Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick | Bombing Hiroshima Changed the World, but It Didn't End WWII 
U.S. president Barack Obama delivers remarks after laying a wreath at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Friday as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks on. (photo: Reuters)
Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, Los Angeles Times 
Excerpt: "Most Americans have been taught that using atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 was justified because the bombings ended the war in the Pacific, thereby averting a costly U.S. invasion of Japan. This erroneous contention finds its way into high school history texts still today. More dangerously, it shapes the thinking of government officials and military planners working in a world that still contains more than 15,000 nuclear weapons." 
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