{"id":13831,"date":"2023-08-31T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=13831"},"modified":"2023-09-06T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:16:10","slug":"826-nuclear-consequences-behind-the-manhattan-project-salim-mansur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/13831","title":{"rendered":"826 &#8211; Nuclear consequences\u2014behind the Manhattan Project | Salim Mansur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/826-ManhattanProject-168x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13833\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20230831-justRIGHT-826-GUEST-SalimMansur-NuclearCONSEQUENCES-behindTheMANHATTANproject.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><br \/>\n<strong>History can be described as \u201cthe consequences of consequences\u201d suggests our guest, Salim Mansur.<\/strong>  Consequently, like any science, history too is never \u201csettled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nothing could illustrate this principle more clearly than Salim\u2019s latest analysis of <strong>the history behind America\u2019s irrational hatred of all things Russian, which startlingly has a direct connection to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harry Truman\u2019s decision to use nuclear weapons in Japan came on the heels of their successful development made possible by <strong>the Manhattan Project<\/strong>.  The bombing of Hiroshima marked the break in America\u2019s wartime alliance with Russia, instantly converting an ally into an enemy, argues Salim.  It was also the \u201cfirst shot taken in the cold war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is a chilling account of the development of what has been called the <strong>\u201cdeep state\u201d<\/strong> and of the <strong>military-industrial-complex<\/strong> with which it is associated. <strong>The Manhattan Project was itself evidence of a deep state already deeply entrenched<\/strong>, though then, as with revelations about today\u2019s deep state, its existence was unknown \u2013 even to some of the highest officials in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The great tragedy behind <strong>the bombings of Japan<\/strong> is that they <strong>were known at the time to be militarily unnecessary<\/strong>, and were sadly motivated by the Truman administration\u2019s political considerations concerning America\u2019s future relationship with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>During his previous discussion on Just Right, Salim warned that <strong>a disinterest in history is a symptom of a nihilistic society<\/strong> since a culture or nation without a past cannot steer itself to a better future.<\/p>\n<p>As if to illustrate this truth, his latest journey down the \u201crabbit hole\u201d of history surrounding the Manhattan Project, the bombing of Japan, and America\u2019s anti-Russian obsession, has revealed a world that today is close to repeating a tragic historical consequence far from being Just Right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/826-topics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/topics.gif\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/826-clips-credits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/clips_and_credits.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you found this presentation valuable please consider supporting us:<br \/>\n&#x1f9e1; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/justrightmedia\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PayPal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History can be described as \u201cthe consequences of consequences\u201d suggests our guest, Salim Mansur. Consequently, like any science, history too is never \u201csettled.\u201d Nothing could illustrate this principle more clearly than Salim\u2019s latest analysis of the history behind America\u2019s irrational hatred of all things Russian, which startlingly has a direct connection to the bombings of <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/13831' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,111,28,259,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-governance","category-latest","category-military","category-politics","issues-bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki","issues-deep-state","issues-manhattan-project","issues-military-industrial-complex","issues-russia","personalities-harry-s-truman","guests-salim-mansur","category-12-id","category-111-id","category-28-id","category-259-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13831"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13837,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13831\/revisions\/13837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}