TIP OF THE SPEAR

Revisionist History Never Rusts

It’s the 80^th anniversary of our victory in WWII. On the left is Bockscar, the plane that ended that war, as it sits in the Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, next to a replica of the bomb Fat Man that was used on Nagasaki. The atomic bombs dropped by it and the Enola Gay factually saved at least a million lives, likely many millions more. You’ve never heard that before? Read on as I tell you why the book on the right is required reading.

Eighty years of revisionist lies about our only nuclear war.

BY DOC SPEARS

“Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay—and claims a halo for his dishonesty.” (Robert. A Heinlein, Starship Troopers, 1959.

I’m not implying that anyone against the use of nuclear weapons is by association necessarily a pacifist. The world must never again see the use of nuclear weapons. The excellent military affairs and intelligence journalist Annie Jacobsen in her book Nuclear War: A Scenario, makes a compelling case that in our current age, a contained and limited nuclear engagement is impossible. If fusion bombs start melting cities, worldwide extermination is the end point.