HenryMakow.com — March 2, 2023
“Both my mother and I had been through a great deal of strain during this time … and then we also started to feel listless and began to lose our hair because we had breathed the gases when the atom bomb fell.”
“We breathed the gases when the atom bomb fell”
Eyewitness testimony of mustard gas use in Hiroshima
by Michael Palmer, MD — (henrymakow.com)
In previous posts on this website [footnotes 1,2] and elsewhere [3,4], I have argued that no nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, many cases of acute radiation sickness were reported from both cities. How can we explain these?
I believe that these cases were caused not by radiation but rather by mustard gas, a chemical warfare agent that mimics the effects of radiation. Here, I present eyewitness testimony which supports this thesis. Objective medical evidence which confirms it will be discussed in a subsequent post.
Figure 1: Spontaneous subcutaneous bleeding (left) and hair loss (right) in two bombing victims from Hiroshima. Bleeding is due to the lack of blood platelets, which in turn is caused by bone marrow failure. Like the cells in the bone marrow, those in the hair follicles divide rapidly and thus are particularly susceptible to DNA-damaging agents such as radiation and mustard gas.
1. On mustard gas
Mustard gas, or sulfur mustard was first used during World War 1. Even though introduced only in 1917, it caused more casualties than any of the previously used battle gases. A key reason for this high lethality is that it bypasses the protection afforded by gas masks by attacking the skin, which it causes to blister, and is also taken up quite effectively across the skin. In those not protected by gas masks, it causes severe lung damage; this was reported in Iranian soldiers exposed to mustard gas used by Iraq in the war between the two countries [5].
A man persuaded against his will is of the same opinion still…
I wonder what is worse: inflicting unnecessary suffering on civilian populations or creating and maintaining a world built on lies?
What a cruel deception it is to infer that children go to school to “learn” and that there is the possibility of “progress”; that people have walked on the moon and that “cures” for this and that disease are “just a round the corner”… That we should “listen to the science” as articulated by retards like Thunberg but not be part of the inquiry – and in part the jury – that genuine science requires…
No-one ever said it was a nuclear bomb; it was an atomic bomb, with “nuclear” ones being invented later. They split the atom, then the nucleus, according to the orthodoxy, which there is ignorance of in the article. Commenters give a different account but they are often Apollo-deniers and sometimes Flat Earthers
Trying to reduce the fear of a nuclear war.
I’ve known for quite some time, that nuclear bombs, do not exist.
nukes are fake study the evidence!! in your face!
Sigh. Splitting an atom involves splitting the nucleus.
There is a world of evidence for the Japan bombs. This is disputed only by people who have unrealistic, ignorant expectations.
There is no evidence, none, of manned travel to the Moon. The radiation flux is enough to ruin photographic film. And the electron belt around Earth is unpredictable as to intensity. And rockets cannot avoid it, not enough fuel.
There is another possibility. That atomic bombs were dropped, the first uranium based and the second plutonium, yet radiation is not the killer we’ve been led to believe (see Galen Winsor). Thus if the initial blast of tremendous heat did not kill these people, then the release of mustard gas soon afterwards finished them off, and many others as well.
@ Lewis Jones… well said, totally with you regarding flat-earthers and Apollo, although do reckon the first actual landing was filmed on earth, even though the Saturn rocket itself did take off. Think they needed to know it worked, which it did, hence the rest of the Apollo missions being real.
OH How furious the high command was about the “Atom Gas” in the years I was in!
Fact is most residents of Hiroshima/Nagasaki were convinced they were hit by gas and the Allied upper echelons were furious when we agreed with them.
They made entire training films trying to “debunk” Atom Gas. The reason is that gas was what they used for most of the kills. The bombs were either frauds or fizzlers, as the airboys said.
Keep in mind this was the era of “New World or No World” and nukes were what they used to scare people into buying it. TO THIS DAY people think once the great nuclear bombs are launched, that’s it. All mushroom clouds and Vera Lynn singing “we’ll meet again” as the world ends.
Poppycock! There was never a thing to be afraid of. If it were not for nukes, many “western” regimes would have been run out as tar and feathers dripped from their worthless bums years ago.
“Hiroshima” was as follows: A high-altitude magnesium flash device popped the sky first. Then a “pumpkin” bomb exploded at low altitude to confuse people on the ground that there was only ONE bomber when in fact an entire armada of B-29s arrived and dropped as many napalm devices as possible, At the same time mustard gas was introduced at lower altitudes but were mixed with low lying rain clouds producing poisonous rain.
After the surrender, Allied troops cordoned off the area “ground zero” and created a whole rack of effects. Silhouettes were painted on walls and bridges to convince people that the blast “vaporized” people when in fact napalm and high explosives can do no such thing.
For years they propagandized and terrorized all of us about this FRAUD. It was the first brick in the jailhouse called The New World Order. Start by flushing it down the drain and stop being afraid.
As the witch doctor told his disciples — Fear kills but only if you believe it and allow yourself to be afraid. DO NOT. They lied in 1945 and they’ve been lying ever since. Free yourself– and you help free the world.
Essene Gnostic: bullshit
in Nevada, north of Las Vegas you can see
hundreds of underground craters in a valey
on joogelearth. east is salt Groomlake Aerea 51.
Beirut port you still can see the result of israeli
beercan sized mininuke . more on veterans today
(Tianjin).
It’s surprising to me that, with all the evidence that has come forward in the last twenty years, that there are still those who believe that men have visited the Moon. It is a faith, not an investment in evidence. Would your world-view crumble upon the exposure of a rather obvious scientific fraud?
Everybody knows that the Moon is made of cheese and 10,000 tonnes of rocket thrust, expended in departing from its surface, would have resulted in the lunar landscape dripping gloopily into the toasty ether.
Timothy Dunlap–I looked it up and it seems you were right about Nuclear/atomic, but earlier in life I heard them giving the other story, which held that nuclear bombs were thousands of times more powerful than atom bombs, and I do not take the new story as certain in any case–you could split an atom and not split the nucleus, presumably. It was first done in England under Rutherford. When they first went to the moon, if that one was real, I was very angry because of the music they used (Richard Strauss) “They are using this music to make it seem better than it is” or I said “sound” and not “seem”, and pretty soon they were bored enough to start playing golf. What was happening on Bikini Atoll if not the tests? Why were the French so angry with Chirac and his testing? Why did Teller want to nuke the coast of California for new harbours if it is impossible?
Peter : fact
Can anyone tell me why the International red cross building was left completely intact and every other building burnt out, just saying for a friend..