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Respectful dedication to the heroic people of Japan!!
On the morning of August 6, 1945, the Americans dropped a Uranium Bomb on Hiroshima. The destructive force of the Atomic bomb equalled 20,000 tons of TNT. 80,000 men, women and children just evaporated and as many were injured. Thousands more would die the worst kind of death as a result of their wounds and radioactive fallout, over the ensuring weeks and years. Three days later an even more powerful plutonium bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing 60,000. Thus the world entered nuclear insanity!!
65 years on, we've learnt nothing but to continue growing our nuclear arsenals. We can now boast of a capability to destroy ourselves countless times over, and to irradiate ourselves from a millenia. Mankind it seems crossed some sort of Rubicon when it harnessed the power of Atom. Nuclear weapons may not have been used since 1945, but they have been assiduously developed, recklessly tested and despite successive arms reduction treaties, stockpiled in staggering numbers. Somehow we've managed to convince ourselves that we have grown out of nuclear power because we have avoided it for 65 years.
65 years on, we've learnt nothing but to continue growing our nuclear arsenals. We can now boast of a capability to destroy ourselves countless times over, and to irradiate ourselves from a millenia. Mankind it seems crossed some sort of Rubicon when it harnessed the power of Atom. Nuclear weapons may not have been used since 1945, but they have been assiduously developed, recklessly tested and despite successive arms reduction treaties, stockpiled in staggering numbers. Somehow we've managed to convince ourselves that we have grown out of nuclear power because we have avoided it for 65 years.
Dutifully, we debate, the morality of attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ignore all the evidence that they were no more than bludgeoning real politick: the US wanted to give Stalin a fright with its new wonder weapon, and the Japanese provided an ideal target of opportunity. The end of the cold war it now seems has not reduced the chances of us all being consumed in superpower Armageddon. Every country it now seems is an emerging nuclear power.
The world never learns! We now talk off nuclear politics and nuclear diplomacy! Neither works! A strong deterrent creates only, a cul de sack. It freezes old stalemates! It solves nothing! The whole world is fractured and paralyzed! Man kind must see the bigger picture! A horrendous and irrevocable nightmare of global public health and financial disaster will follow a nuclear exchange. So it is in our direct self-interest to think wisely as it is the world's natural resources and environment are under a lot of pressure. Niall ferhuson sums up brilliantly: "As Keynes may have written, nothing can then delay for very long that civil war between the forces of reaction and revolution, before which the horrors of the late war on terror will fade into nothing!" Goodnight and God bless!
SAM Daily Times - The Voice Of The Voiceless
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