Gabbard's Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Post

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Yesterday I published 'The Taiwan Test,' which was divided into four article.  Today in the last article -- (4) -- at Note (a)(ii) right beneath "• Fort Zeelandia" I add the following:

• New Zealand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand
(section 1 Etymology; "In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1769 the British explorer Captain James Cook became the first European to set foot on and map New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi which paved the way for Britain's declaration of sovereignty later that year * * * no human remains, artefacts or structures can be reliably dated to earlier than the Kaharoa eruption of Mount Tarawera in around 1314 CE.[42] * * * [Originally from Taiwan, Maori might have arrived] around 1350")

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Andrew Salmon, Gabbard's Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Post Surprises Japan, Irks Republicans. The Washington Times, June 11, 2025 (the news report supplies a link to the X post).
https://www.washingtontimes.com/ ... rprises-japan-irks/

Note:
(a) Salmon as a surname at least has two origins (both of the below come from Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press, 2nd ed):
(i) English and French: "a shortened form of Salomon (see Solomon). The Normans introduced it to England"
(ii) English: :no doubt given to someone who caught, sold, or ate the fish"
(b) "US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard"
(i) Director of National Intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence
(ii) Tulsi Gabbard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard
(1981 (born in American Samoa) - ; "her father, who is of Samoan and European ancestry,[9][10] was born in American Samoa and grew up in Hawaii and Florida.[11]   Gabbard was raised in Hawaii.[9] During her early years, Gabbard's parents owned a vegetarian restaurant, The Natural Deli in Moiliili, Hawaii.[6][12] * * * She was mostly home schooled"/ US House of Representatives from Hawaii as a Democrat (2013-2021) and Vice Chair of Democratic National Committee (2013-2016); left Democratic Party in October 2022 and joined Republican Party in October 2024)
(A) American Samoa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Samoa
(table: GDP per capita  (PPP, 2021 estimate): $15,743; "14.3°S [south of Equator] * * * is 40 miles (64 km) southeast of the island country of Samoa * * * American Samoa is the southernmost territory of the United States * * * American Samoa consists of the eastern part of the Samoan archipelago [the archipelago was partitioned in 1899, and Germany took the western part] * * * Its total land area is 76.1 square miles (197.1 km2) – slightly larger than Washington, DC -- consisting of five rugged, volcanic islands * * * Due to its positioning in the South Pacific Ocean, it is frequently hit by tropical cyclones between November and April")
(B) Mike "Gabbard became vegetarian and gave his children Hindu names."  en.wikipedia.org for "Mike Gabbard" (her father)
(C) Ocimum tenuiflorum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocimum_tenuiflorum
("commonly known as * * * tulsi ([borrowed from Hindi of that spelling] from Sanskrit [romanization: tulasī) * * * It is native to tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Australia and the western Pacific.[1] * * * [used in] Hinduism, in which devotees perform worship involving the plant or its leaves")
, which 百度百科 says "分布于 台湾、海南," implying it is not found in China mainland.
(c) "Annie Jacobson's 2024 bestseller “Nuclear War: A Scenario' "

The book was published by Dutton. See EP Dutton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._P._Dutton
(a publisher that "was founded as a book retailer in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1852[1] by Edward Payson Dutton. Since 1986, it has been an imprint of Penguin Group")
(d) "Ms Gabbard is hardly the only US security official to critique nuclear arms" Eisenhower and Leahy

Leo Maley III and Uday Hohan, Hiroshima: Military Voices of Dissent.
https://origins.osu.edu/history- ... tary-voices-dissent

four consecutive paragraphs:

" * * * contrary to conventional opinion today, many military leaders of the time — including six out of seven five-star officers — criticized the use of the atomic bomb.

"Take, for example, Admiral William Leahy, White House chief of staff [1942-1949] and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the war. Leahy wrote in his 1950 memoirs that 'the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender.' Moreover, Leahy continued, 'in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children."

"President Dwight Eisenhower, the Allied commander in Europe during World War II, recalled in 1963, as he did on several other occasions, that he had opposed using the atomic bomb on Japan during a July 1945 meeting with Secretary of War Henry Stimson: 'I told him I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.'

"Admiral William 'Bull' Halsey, the tough and outspoken  commander of the US Third Fleet, which participated in the American offensive against the Japanese home islands in the final months of the war, publicly stated in 1946 that 'the first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment.' The Japanese, he noted, had 'put out a lot of peace feelers through Russia long before' the bomb was used.

"Admiral William Leahy, White House chief of staff and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the war."

(A) About Origins. undated
https://origins.osu.edu/about
("Every month since 2007, we've provided historical insight on current events that matter to the United States and to the world. The history departments of Ohio State University and Miami University in Oxford produce a main article that appears on the 15th of each month and features an expert who analyzes a pressing issue—whether political, cultural, or social—in a broader, deeper context")
• Miami University
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_University
(1809- ; public; in Oxford (30 miles (48 km) northwest of Cincinnati), Ohio)
is named after a Native American Nation "Miami" (who lived across three present-day states, including Oxford, Ohio) and distinct from University of Miami (1925- ; private)
• City of Miami, Florida us named after Miami River, Florida that runs through that city. The river, in turn, was named after Mayaimi people who lived there.
(B) Leahy's title was actually "Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief" (the only one to hold that title), which became "Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff" (CJCS) after Leahy retirement (in 1949) due to the 1947 enactment of a federal law. See Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch ... int_Chiefs_of_Staff
(section 5 List of Chairmen)