Nuclear Smoke and Mirrors
Nuclear Smoke and Mirrors HANS VOGEL Just a few days ago, marking the 78 th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ordered his Japanese Under-Secretary General Izumi Nakamitsu to read a statement in his name. Curiously, no mention is made of of the perpetrator, the US. Nor was the US mentioned in Japan during the commemoration of the Hiroshima bombing. Nevertheless the whole world knows that on 6 August 1945, the crew of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay” dropped “Little Boy,” the nuclear device that devastated Hiroshima, killing at least 135.000 of its inhabitants. Little Boy fell from his mother’s womb and helped the US win the War in the Pacific (no pun intended). The name of the airplane, Enola Gay, after its commander’s mother, seems chosen with remarkable foresight, since today eight decades after the Second World War, the US is the self-proclaimed champion of gay rights, as well as of those of all...