Richard Falk Richard Falk Learning from disaster after Sendai Is
it possible that the nuclear meltdown in Japan is linked to a
Faustian bargain with the West? Last Modified: 17 Mar 2011 13:19
There were warnings that went unheeded that the Fukushima
nuclear plants were not up to the standards of withstanding
massive earthquakes and tsunamis [GETTY]  After atomic bombs
were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was in the West -
especially the United States - a short triumphal moment,
crediting American science and military prowess with bringing
victory over Japan and the avoidance of what was anticipated at
the time to be a long and bloody conquest of the Japanese
homeland.    This use of atomic bombs against defenceless,
densely populated cities remains the greatest single act of
state terror in human history, and had it been committed by the
losers in World War II surely the perpetrators would have been
held criminally accountable and the weaponry forever prohibited.
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