2 chapters across the catalog
Owen Benjamin describes "duck and cover" drills from his childhood as trauma rituals designed to make the population docile and fatalistic. He suggests that the nuclear bomb narrative is a "spell" used for mind control, noting that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not among the most destroyed cities in Japan compared to firebombed Tokyo. He attributes the Japanese surrender to the Russian invasion of Manchuria rather than the atomic bombs.
Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima and the Spell of Global Terror
Owen Benjamin challenges the conventional narrative regarding nuclear weapons, suggesting that the fear of total world vaporization is a "wizard spell" used for mind control. He notes that his father, a professor of rhetoric, gave a keynote in Hiroshima, which led Benjamin to question why the city is habitable if radiation lasts for thousands of years. The discussion posits that firebombing in Tokyo was more destructive than the atomic strikes and that "duck and cover" drills were trauma rituals designed to create a docile, fearful population.
