Hiroshima Revisited..
'Hiroshima Revisited by Michael Palmer, MD scrutinizes the prevailing narrative of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings by systematically analyzing physical, medical, and historical evidence. '
Foreword
In this well researched and eminently readable book, Palmer has corralled the available evidence that the war-ending bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 were not atom bombs.
What? What’s that you say?
Your family and friends, like mine, may find this notion incredible.
If they do, ask them to read the book it’s free online (see URL on the
imprint page). I predict that most of those who take your suggestion
will agree that the conventional Manhattan Project history may well be a
contender for the Greatest Hoax of all Time. During the reading, readers
both old enough to have experienced and young enough to remember
those times may experience some Ah ha! moments. Palmer kicks off
his study by analyzing physical data that reveal the hoax. In this, he
makes good use of the recent book by Akio Nakatani: Death Object:
Exploding the Nuclear Weapons Hoax [1], which draws upon reports by
those who have examined the scene and assert that the destruction of
those two cities was, by all appearances, the result of fire-bombing, like
that which had already destroyed most of Japan’s major cities.
Palmer reviews and expands on this convincing physical evidence,
and then complements it by analyzing the effects of the bomb on people.
He concludes that the reported ‘radiation effects’ expected from an
atom bomb are, instead, effects of sulfur mustard gas and napalm. It is
not surprising that government documents regarding medical effects
among victims and survivors remain classified for reasons of ‘national
security’. Several chapters provide primers on elementary aspects of
nuclear physics and human physiology that will be appreciated by those
who aim for a critical understanding of Palmer’s thesis.
Thanks to this book, I can now understand a pair of perplexing
conversations I had in the 1960s. The first, which took place in the
new Institute for Molecular Biology at the University of Oregon, was
with its founding director who told me that one of his activities in
the Manhattan project was to collect soil samples from the site of the
Trinity test a few hours after the explosion. An interesting story, but
how come he was alive to tell it? Wasn’t the site lethally radioactive
from a ground level explosion of a plutonium bomb?
The other puzzling conversation occurred during a flight to the
west coast. A noted geneticist was angry with a world-famous chemist
who, he claimed, grossly exaggerated the genetic damage from the
Hiroshima atrocity. Why would the chemist, whom I knew and trusted,
do such a thing? Palmer’s book provided the Ah ha! moments for both
these puzzles.
The young director was not killed by intensely radioactive soil at
the site simply because the test bomb had not been an atom bomb.
The chemist, relying on physicists’ estimates of the bomb’s radiation
intensity, used experimentally derived relations between radiation
dose and mutation rates to predict the genetic damage to Hiroshima
survivors and their offspring. The geneticist, on the other hand, had
made direct observations on children born to survivors and not found
the level of damage that the chemist had estimated—in fact, such
studies have found only slight and non-significant increases of genetic
disease in the offspring of survivors.
Some readers will acknowledge that Palmer has made a strong
scientific case for the fakery but will resist it without answers to “How
was it done?” and “Why?”. In the final two chapters, the author takes
on those questions with arguments that are, by necessity, speculative.
Please don’t cheat by reading these chapters first. Their conclusions
are likely to appear reasonable only after you have acknowledged the
possibility of the book’s primary conclusion, that We the People have
been taken in by this enormous hoax.
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