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Aug. 5—In a speech Aug. 4 to a political youth summer camp in Norway, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg extolled the virtues of NATO, especially now with Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. “President Putin has attacked an entire innocent country and people, with military force, to achieve his political goals,” he claimed. “What he is really doing is challenging the world order we believe in where all countries, large and small, can choose their own path. He does not accept the sovereignty of other countries.” The war, Stoltenberg lied, “was triggered by his demand for Russian control over Ukraine.”

Today, 77 years ago, August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. In two months, from the blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as many as 200,000 died from the explosions and their effects. The only nation in world history to have dropped the bomb is the United States, not Russia, not China. The dropping of the bombs was not necessary; negotiations with the Japanese were well underway. The bombs were dropped to send another message. “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”