{"id":319367,"date":"2026-08-17T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=319367"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:14:17","slug":"bombing-hiroshima-the-myth-of-saving-lives-with-howard-zinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/08\/bombing-hiroshima-the-myth-of-saving-lives-with-howard-zinn\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombing Hiroshima: The Myth of Saving Lives with Howard Zinn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11 May 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ytAttributedStringHost ytAttributedStringWhiteSpacePreWrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor\" dir=\"auto\">Did the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki save millions of lives on both sides or is that a total myth? Howard Zinn, who himself participated in World War II as a bomber, insists we killed several 100 thousand people unnecessarily.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bombing Hiroshima: The Myth Of Saving Lives with Howard Zinn\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vSKLVseJ9Xo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/em>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 May 2010 &#8211; Did the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki save millions of lives on both sides or is that a total myth? Howard Zinn, who himself participated in World War II as a bomber, insists we killed several 100 thousand people unnecessarily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[3143,2642,1161,853,3036,1347,179,1361,450,112,95,70,581],"class_list":["post-319367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-anti-hegemony","tag-anti-imperialism","tag-arms-industry","tag-atomic-weapons","tag-full-spectrum-dominance","tag-hiroshima-and-nagasaki","tag-japan","tag-nuclear-disaster","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-pentagon","tag-us-military","tag-usa","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319368,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319367\/revisions\/319368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}