BOMBE AL NAPALM USA SUI CIVILI

 

Tokyo: anno 1945

di Gianni Lannes

Indimenticabili orrori: crimini contro l'umanità. Bombe United States of America al napalm sui civili: dall'Italia alla Germania, dal Giappone alla Corea e al Vietnam. Si tratta di una sostanza chimica (prodotta dalla Dow Chemical) - ricavata dalla benzina - scoperta nel 1942 dal chimico statunitense Louis Fieser dell'università di Harvard. L'aviazione militare statunitense ha effettuato i primi lanci sperimentali di ordigni al napalm sull'Italia nel 1943-44, poi su Dresda e Berlino.

Tokyo: anno 1945

L'operazione “Meetinghouse”: Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kawasaki e Kobe, dove le bombe al napalm uccisero oltre 150 mila persone in pochi istanti. Un fuoco infernale: il peggior attacco terroristico avvenuto nella storia dell'umanità si verificò nella notte tra il 9 e il 10 marzo 1945, quando i B29s ridussero in cenere Tokyo, uccidendo sul colpo circa 120 mila esseri umani (civili). I cosiddetti “esportatori di democrazia e di libertà, non sono altro che dei criminali impuniti.

Tokyo: anno 1945

Tokyo: anno 1945

Tokyo: anno 1945

Tokyo: anno 1945

Tokyo

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