{"id":9279,"date":"2009-08-06T09:46:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T16:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=9279"},"modified":"2009-08-06T09:46:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T16:46:48","slug":"subversive-historian-080609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/08\/06\/subversive-historian-080609\/","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Historian &#8211; 08\/06\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-080609\/2009_08_06_sh.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-080609\/2009_08_06_uprising.MP3\"> the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drooker.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"\/home\/graphics\/Censorship.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Drooker\" \/><\/a><strong> Hiroshima<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back in the day on August 6th, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb named \u201cLittle Boy\u201d on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In the last phases of World War II, the devastating blast from the B-29 bomber known as the \u201cEnola Gay\u201d killed an estimated 140,000 people, the grand majority of which were civilians. Many in Hiroshima died instantly while tens of thousands more succumbed to radiation poising in the following years. The massive death wrought by the first usage of atomic weaponry in human history was rationalized under the context that it saved lives by hastening Japan\u2019s surrender. However, historian Howard Zinn has argued against the notion citing General Eisenhower and Admiral Leary in making the case that Japan was on the verge of surrendering and that the bombing was unnecessary. <\/p>\n<p>Sixty-four years later, however, a majority of people in the United States remained unconvinced by the Zinn Master\u2019s work. According to a new poll, sixty-one percent still contend that the bombing was \u201cthe right thing to do.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><em>For Uprising, this is your truth professa&#8217; saying it&#8217;s no mystery why they conceal our people&#8217;s history<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Hiroshima Back in the day on August 6th, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb named \u201cLittle Boy\u201d on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In the last phases of World War II, the devastating blast from the B-29 bomber known as the \u201cEnola Gay\u201d killed an estimated 140,000 people, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}