Atomic Religion
How a Belief in the Atom Bomb Made People ‘Atheist’
In my recent podcast (Johannes Tyrannis episode #85 — Busting the Nuclear Weapons Hoax), I suggested that nuclear weapons aren’t real. Under the leadership of general LaMay and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, I believe Hiroshima and Nagasaki were carpet-bombed with conventional napalm or phosphor bombs.
Mind you, I don’t think there’s anything “conventional” about mass-murdering people by burning entire cities full of civilians alive. But just like countless other cities in Japan and Germany that were made of wood at the time, the last two cities did go up in flames.
Over here in Europe, where I live, people tend to believe that NATO and the U.S. are protecting Europe from outside aggression under the nuclear umbrella provided for us by our American partners. This threat of nuclear force is supposed to make us feel safe, and it is often used as an argument for us to stay in NATO despite, for example, Germany and its economy being better off in a relationship with Russia.
Based on hints and suggestions from the book Death Object by Akio Nakatani, I am now convinced nuclear weapons were, and still are, a simple hoax. The myth of the atom bomb was born out of an Anglo-American need to dominate the world, especially Russia.
If you could convince your enemies you were in the possession of a magical super weapon, they might never dare to attack you again. And for some time, the myth did its job. During the Cold War, no nukes were shot at any enemy.
All it took to convince me as a child to start believing these super-weapons were real was a short televised composite shot of soldiers running toward the mushroom cloud. Now, all I see is a sped-up time-lapse of a sunrise superimposed on separate footage of soldiers on the ground. All footage of atomic bomb explosions has been doctored.
What I am now concerned with is the following: The way that some people responded to my nuclear-hoax theory reminisces of the way some religious people respond when they are told God doesn’t exist. They respond in a very defensive manner and are visibly upset.
Then I realized it: The only reason why someone can say they’re atheist is that there is some other powerful force they have chosen to believe in, namely: the power of technology, specifically the atom bomb.
By having replaced a belief in God with the worship of Atomic weapons, people can let go of traditional religion and embrace, instead, the belief that our “divine” nuclear arsenal will always protect us.
Firstly, atomic atheists believe that parties that don’t have nukes will never dare to attack us. And secondly, the principle of mutually assured destruction (MAD) says that parties that do have nukes wouldn’t want to use them against us either, for they would be destroyed by us.
The Atomic religion says: As long as we have nukes, we’ll be safe, apart from lesser conflicts that stay under the radar of atomic war.
This religious belief in the Atom Bomb thus substitutes for a genuine belief in a Human God. The threatening force of the atom bomb has the undeniable lure of godly destructive powers, no different from the Biblical God who rained brimstone and hail down onto Sodom and Gomorrah.
The real reason why two cities had to be nuked, then, wasn’t just to convince the Japanese that atom bombs are real. It was meant to start a new religion altogether. The nuclear age was going to replace Christianity with scientific atheism — and the belief in God with the belief in the Atom.
Even better: atomic bombs made us feel as though we could play God ourselves. We could threaten to evaporate our enemies at the push of a red button! Who needs Sunday church if you can have nukes.
Under the nuclear umbrella, we will be safe forever. Except, of course, when our own government turns against the people and decides to nuke our own cities to smithereens. To avoid that, we common folk better behave and keep paying taxes, for we wouldn’t want to anger the elected officials we put in charge of the nukes. So much for democracy.
Personally, I think you’d have you be pretty if not severely mentally ill to think weapons of mass destruction are your God and Savior. To think that we can only be safe under a blanket of bombs that might erase all life on earth… You can only really believe something like that if your mind was warped by propaganda for decades.
And our minds have been warped by Anglo-American “bomb” propaganda for decades. It is not a healthy belief. Nuclear bombs were never real and never will be. I am sure the great powers of our world did everything they could to develop actual weapons of mass destruction, but they haven’t succeeded.
The Atomic God that never existed may rule us no longer. And with it, the idea of Anglo-American world dominance based on this false nuclear faith may now begin to wane.