http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2009/08/06/hiroshima-day-2009-worcester-massachusetts/ religion, activism, hospitality Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:29:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2009/08/06/hiroshima-day-2009-worcester-massachusetts/comment-page-1/#comment-476220 David Maciewski Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:42:17 +0000 http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/?p=2006#comment-476220 Was the bomb necessary? According to Stephanie Cooke in her 2009 book "In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age,"(Cooke's has written about the nuclear industry since the 80's and currently writes for "The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists" and her book in endorsed by Dr. Helen Caldicott and Amory Lovins), she cites that General Leslie Groves told Joseph Rotblat(founder of Pugwash and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize) at a dinner in January 1944 that "You realize, of course, that the main purpose of the (Manhattan) project was to subdue the Russians."p.26 Was the bomb necessary? Certainly not against the Japanese in the Pacific, and certainly only in the context of a long-running geopolitical strategy that bankrupted both the Soviets and the U.S. and has left perhaps the greatest immediate threat to the survival of humanity. Was the bomb necessary? According to Stephanie Cooke in her 2009 book “In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age,”(Cooke’s has written about the nuclear industry since the 80’s and currently writes for “The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists” and her book in endorsed by Dr. Helen Caldicott and Amory Lovins), she cites that General Leslie Groves told Joseph Rotblat(founder of Pugwash and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize) at a dinner in January 1944 that “You realize, of course, that the main purpose of the (Manhattan) project was to subdue the Russians.”p.26
Was the bomb necessary? Certainly not against the Japanese in the Pacific, and certainly only in the context of a long-running geopolitical strategy that bankrupted both the Soviets and the U.S. and has left perhaps the greatest immediate threat to the survival of humanity.

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