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“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has ownedthe government of the United States since the days of Andrew Jackson.” —Franklin D. RooseveltThere is considerable reason to believe President Roosevelt’s statement is true, thus the “financial elementin the large centers” shares responsibility and blame for the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of wardeaths in the last few decades. The people of the world need protection from those responsible for provokingnations to war. In the United States this responsibility lies with all elements in the highest levels ofgovernment, the decision makers. It lies with those who tinker with political and economic machinations,most likely for the advantage of “a financial element in the large centers.” These are probably people youngenough and sufficiently uninformed to have no conception of the atrocity of the nuclear confrontationsand conflagrations to which they are quite possibly leading the world. This group of people may includemost people serving in the U.S. Congress and from personal experience almost everyone in the U.S.Military. (I received no training about nuclear war while serving in the Army.) I have my doubts whetherPresidents have seen all of the results of the world’s first nuclear war; they are probably protected fromthis. Photographs of the victims were confiscated and held confidential for more than 22 years after 1945.There were well more than 210,000 victims; not many photographs were made and survived. You can seein this book a tiny fraction of the truth about what happens to people caught in nuclear war. In a futurewar there would be hundreds of thousands, more likely hundreds of millions, of victims. The United Statesgovernment has not revealed this kind of truth about its first nuclear war. I thought that wars were foughtby militaries, not by bombing defenseless citizens and children in cities. Obama has been the only sittingpresident to visit Hiroshima, with Prime Minister Abe, in 2016.