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80 Years After Hiroshima: Time For Truth and Accountability

The US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren’t militarily necessary—they were a demonstration: a test of power, a message to the world and a geopolitical gambit targeting the USSR, explains Emanuel Pastreich, President of the Asia Institute.
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80 years later the US still refuses to apologize, clinging to nuclear dominance as a rickety crutch. Instead of disarmament, they have modernized those weapons, spending trillions while science and ethics decay.
The deeper tragedy? The birth of a secretive, war-addicted system—one that sacrifices humanity for profit and power.
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