Vandaag
is het 74 jaar geleden dat een atoombom van de VS volkomen zinloos een
eind aan het leven maakte van 80.000 inwoners van Nagasaki, dit nadat de
VS deze vreselijke oorlogsmisdaad en misdaad tegen de menselijkheid 3
dagen eerder beging tegen de Japanse stad Hiroshima*, daarbij
kwamen 146.000 mensen op een vreselijke manier om het leven,
hoofdzakelijk burgers dus kinderen, vrouwen, gehandicapten, ouden van
dagen en mannen, mannen die werkzaam waren in ziekenhuizen, scholen,
lokale overheid en in het bedrijfsleven…..

De
schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel van CounterPunch is
Alice Slater. Zij wijst i.v.m de herdenkingen dezer dagen van de
atoomaanvallen op Hiroshima en Nagasaki, op de ernstig
verslechterende relatie van de VS met Rusland, al helemaal wat betreft
kernwapens, waar de VS en de NAVO categorisch weigeren in te gaan op
een uitnodiging van Rusland om de raketten te inspecteren, de
raketten waarvan de VS zegt dat ze het INF-verdrag schenden, iets dat
Rusland met klem ontkent…….

Het
is dan ook duidelijk dat de VS zelf af wil van het verdrag, dat ze
overigens zelf hebben geschonden met het zogenaamde raketschild tegen
Iraanse raketten, een scherm gestationeerd in Polen en Roemenië, dus bijna aan de voordeur van Rusland…… De raketten van dit schild kunnen
in een mum van tijd worden voorzien van meerdere kernkoppen, waarmee
ze onder het INF-verdrag vallen en een stad als Moskou in korte tijd
kunnen platleggen…….

De
Trump administratie denkt werkelijk een nucleaire oorlog te kunnen
winnen, dat moet Trump eens duidelijk uitleggen aan zijn achterban,
benieuwd of ze dan nog zo enthousiast zijn als ze erachter komen dat zij zullen worden opgeofferd in geval van een
kernoorlog……….

Trump
vroeg zich een paar jaar geleden af waarom de VS kernraketten heeft
en deze niet gebruikt…… (de psychopathisch moordende rotschoft)

Lees
het bericht van Slater, waarin zij nog dieper op deze materie ingaat, waaruit duidelijk wordt dat de VS nooit van zins is geweest om haar atoomkracht werkelijk terug te schalen en zegt het voort. Het is de hoogste tijd dat we met z’n allen weer
de straat opgaan en eisen dat de VS kernbommen worden verwijderd uit
(Noord-) West-Europa en het voormalig Oostblok….. Als het tot een
kernoorlog komt tussen agressor VS en Rusland, zal dit gebied in
Europa worden weggevaagd……. Zie wat dat betekent door je te
verdiepen in wat de atoombommen in Hiroshima en Nagasaki hebben
betekend voor de bewoners van die steden, waar nog steeds mensen
lijden aan de gevolgen daarvan, al is dat de generatie die na de bom
werd geboren, als ik me niet vergis is de laatste overlevende een
paar jaar terug overleden….

AUGUST
8, 2019

Hiroshima
Unlearned: Time to Tell the Truth About US Relations with Russia and
Finally Ban the Bomb

by ALICE
SLATER

Photograph
Source: U.S. Navy Public Affairs Resources Website – Public Domain

August
6th and 9th mark 74 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, where only one nuclear bomb dropped on each city caused
the deaths of up to 146,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 people in
Nagasaki. Now, with the US decision to walk away from the 1987
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) negotiated with the Soviet
Union, we are once again staring into the abyss of one of the most
perilous nuclear challenges since the height of the Cold War.

With
its careful verification and inspections, the INF Treaty eliminated a
whole class of missiles that threatened peace and stability in
Europe. Now the US is leaving the treaty on
the grounds that
Moscow is developing and deploying a missile with a range prohibited
by the treaty. Russia denies the charges and accuses the US of
violating the treaty.  The US rejected repeated Russian requests
to work out the differences in order to preserve the Treaty.

The
US withdrawal should be seen in the context of the historical
provocations visited upon the Soviet Union and now Russia by the
United States and the nations under the US nuclear “umbrella” in
NATO and the Pacific. The US has been driving the nuclear arms race
with Russia from the dawn of the nuclear age:

— In
1946 Truman rejected 
Stalin’s offer to turn the bomb over to the newly formed UN under
international supervision, after which the Russians made their own
bomb;

–Reagan
rejected Gorbachev’s offer to give up Star Wars as a condition for
both countries to eliminate all their nuclear weapons when the wall
came down and Gorbachev released all of Eastern Europe from Soviet
occupation, miraculously, without a shot;

— The
US pushed NATO right up to Russia’s borders, despite promises when
the wall fell that NATO would not expand it one inch eastward of a
unified Germany;

–Clinton
bombed Kosovo, bypassing Russia’s veto in the UN Security Council
and violating the UN treaty we signed never to commit a war of
aggression against another nation unless under imminent threat of
attack;

–Clinton
refused Putin’s offer to each cut our massive nuclear arsenals to
1000 bombs each and call all the others to the table to negotiate for
their elimination, provided we stopped developing missile sites in
Romania;

–Bush
walked out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and put the new
missile base in Romania with another to open shortly under Trump in
Poland, right in Russia’s backyard;

–Bush
and Obama blocked any discussion in 2008 and 2014 on Russian and
Chinese proposals for a space weapons ban in the consensus-bound
Committee for Disarmament in Geneva;

–Obama’s rejected Putin’s
offer to negotiate a treaty to ban cyber war;

–Trump
now walked out of the INF Treaty;

–From
Clinton through Trump, the US never ratified the 1992 Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty as Russia has, and has performed more than 20
underground sub-critical tests on the Western Shoshone’s sanctified
land at the Nevada test site.  Since plutonium is blown up with
chemicals that don’t cause a chain reaction, the US claims these
tests don’t violate the treaty;

–Obama,
and now Trump, pledged over one trillion dollars for the next 30
years for two new nuclear bomb factories in Oak Ridge and Kansas
City, as well as new submarines, missiles, airplanes, and warheads!

What
has Russia had to say about these US affronts to international
security and negotiated treaties? Putin at his State of the Nation
address in March 2018 said:

“I
will speak about the newest systems of Russian strategic weapons that
we are creating in response to the unilateral withdrawal of the
United States of America from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and
 the practical deployment of their missile defence systems both
in the US and beyond their national borders.

I
would like to make a short journey into the recent past. Back in
2000, the US announced its withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty. Russia was categorically against this. We saw the
Soviet-US ABM Treaty signed in 1972 as the cornerstone of the
international security system. Under this treaty, the parties
had the right to deploy ballistic missile defence systems only in
one of its regions. Russia deployed these systems around Moscow, and
the US around its Grand Forks land-based ICBM base. Together
with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the ABM treaty not
only created an atmosphere of trust but also prevented either party
from recklessly using nuclear weapons, which would have
endangered humankind, because the limited number of ballistic
missile defence systems made the potential aggressor vulnerable
to a response strike.

We
did our best to dissuade the Americans from withdrawing from the
treaty.

All
in vain. The
US pulled out of the treaty in 2002. Even after that we tried to
develop constructive dialogue with the Americans. We proposed working
together in this area to ease concerns and maintain the atmosphere of
trust. At one point, I thought that a compromise was possible, but
this was not to be. All our proposals, absolutely all of them, were
rejected. And then we said that we would have to improve our modern
strike systems to protect our security”. 

Despite
promises made in the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that the
five nuclear weapons states–US, UK, Russia, France, China–would
eliminate their nuclear weapons while all the other nations of the
world promised not to get them (except for India, Pakistan, and
Israel, which also acquired nuclear weapons), there are still nearly
14,000 nuclear bombs on the planet. All but 1,000 of them are in the
US and Russia, while the seven other countries, including North
Korea, have about 1000 bombs between them.  If the US and Russia
can’t settle their differences and honor their promise in the NPT
to eliminate their nuclear weapons, the whole world will continue to
live under what President Kennedy described as a nuclear Sword of
Damocles, threatened with unimaginable catastrophic humanitarian
suffering and destruction.

To
prevent a nuclear catastrophe, in 2017, 122 nations adopted a new
Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). It calls for a
ban on nuclear weapons just as the world had banned chemical and
biological weapons.  The ban treaty provides a pathway for
nuclear weapons states to join and dismantle their arsenals under
strict and effective verification. The International Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which received the Nobel Peace Prize for its
efforts, is working for the treaty to enter into force by enrolling
50 nations to ratify the treaty.  As of today, 70 nations have
signed the treaty and 24 have ratified it, although none of them are
nuclear weapons states or the US alliance states under the nuclear
umbrella.

With
this new opportunity to finally ban the bomb and end the nuclear
terror,  let us tell the truth about what happened between the
US and Russia that brought us to this perilous moment and put the
responsibility where it belongs to open up a path for true peace and
reconciliation so that never again will anyone on our  planet
ever be threatened with the terrible consequences of nuclear war.

Here
are some actions you can take to ban the bomb:

+ Support the
ICAN Cities Appeal to take a stand in favor of the ban treaty

+
Ask your member of Congress to sign the ICAN
Parliamentary Pledge

+
Ask the US Presidential Candidates to pledge support
for the Ban Treaty and cut Pentagon
spending

+
Support the Don’t
Bank on the Bomb Campaign for
nuclear divestment   

+ Support the
Code Pink Divest From the War Machine Campaign 

+
Distribute Warheads
To Windmills,
How to Pay for the Green New Deal, a
new study addressing the need to prevent the two greatest dangers
facing our planet: nuclear annihilation and climate destruction.

+
Sign the World Beyond War pledge and add your name to this critical
new campaign to make the end of war on our planet an idea whose time
has come! www.worldbeyondwar.org

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More
articles by:ALICE
SLATER

Alice
Slater is
a founder of Abolition
2000,
which works for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons.

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* Zie: ‘Hiroshima, monument van VS agressie‘

Zie ook:

‘VS zet nucleaire raketten in met ‘minilading’, de weg naar een kernoorlog‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Klik voor meer berichten over de aanvallen op Hiroshima en Nagasaki, op één van deze labels, met de naam van deze steden, die je direct onder dit bericht terug kan vinden.

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving, krijg e.e.a. niet op orde.