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To: Jamey who wrote (23463)	8/6/2005 4:37:26 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) of 81886

James > The wild card is Israel who is avowed to keeping their survival as a nation, no matter what it takes to do so latimes.com >>The myths of Hiroshima ...unpleasant historical facts were censored from the 1995 Smithsonian exhibit, an action that should trouble every American. When a government substitutes an officially sanctioned view for publicly debated history, democracy is diminished. Today, in the post-9/11 era, it is critically important that the U.S. face the truth about the atomic bomb. For one thing, the myths surrounding Hiroshima have made it possible for our defense establishment to argue that atomic bombs are legitimate weapons that belong in a democracy's arsenal. Oppenheimer understood very soon after Hiroshima that these weapons would ultimately threaten our very survival. Ironically, Hiroshima's myths are now motivating our enemies to attack us with the very weapon we invented. Hiroshima's myths have gradually given rise to an American unilateralism born of atomic arrogance. Oppenheimer warned against this "sleazy sense of omnipotence." He observed that "if you approach the problem and say, 'We know what is right and we would like to use the atomic bomb to persuade you to agree with us,' then you are in a very weak position and you will not succeed…. You will find yourselves attempting by force of arms to prevent a disaster."<<

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