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Dave Lindorff on the Nukes of August (1945 & 1949) Listen now

Listen HERE Dave Lindorff discusses the nukes of August—1945 and 1949. He is the author of “August 6 and 9, 1945: Two Days that Shook the World…and the Earth” (Counterpunch) and “One Brother Gave the Soviets the A-Bomb. The Other Got a Medal” (The Nation). In 1945 the US infamously dropped nuclear weapons on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9). The massacres served no military purpose. They were designed to send a message to the USSR: stand up to us, and the same thing could happen to you. Sure enough, the US then drew up plans to…

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Dave Lindorff on US Making Nuclear War More Likely; Jim Fetzer Remembers John Stadtmiller

Listen HERE First half hour: Dave Lindorff discusses “The US is Set to Make Nuclear War More Likely“: “The US is about to move towards a far more likely first use of nuclear weapons, with word that the Air Force has ‘completed flight testing’ of the cost-and-performance-plagued F35A Lightning fighter, all units of which are being ‘upgraded’ to carry thermonuclear weapons. “What this means, as explained in a new article in Popular Mechanics, is that the world’s most costly weapons program (at $1.7 trillion), a fifth-generation fighter, supposedly ‘invisible’  to radar (that actually cannot fight and is not invisible to advanced radars),…

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