Will There Be a Next ?

[High Miles]

It was on this day in 1945 *that the United States dropped an atomic
bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan*. It was the first time that a
nuclear weapon was ever used in warfare, and only the second time that a
nuclear weapon had ever been exploded. It was dropped over Hiroshima at
8:15 in the morning. It exploded 1,900 feet above the ground.

[tim]

It was on this day in 1945 *that the United States dropped an atomic bomb
on the city of Hiroshima, Japan*. It was the first time that a nuclear
weapon was ever used in warfare, and only the second time that a nuclear
weapon had ever been exploded. It was dropped over Hiroshima at 8:15 in
the morning. It exploded 1,900 feet above the ground.

Dropped in the morning, it gave the enemy the entire day to look and see the
result, and then lapse into a very dark and horrifying night. The act was
no empty threat. Morality aside, it ended WWII, a period in which it is
estimated over 100,000,000 people were murdered or died of disease and
hunger and physical abuse. The act ushered in a long period during which
the weapon was never used again.

I had hoped before I die to pay me respects at both the Arizona and
Hiroshima, to complete the political circle. A Venn diagram would be a
large black circle surrounded by a uniform band of blood-red blame extending
to the horizon.

Cost-benefit analysis suggests no to the question, but some are still
attracted to zero-sum thinking. We might try to weed those folk out of
positions of power.

[Joel Olson]

Post by tim

It was on this day in 1945 *that the United States dropped an atomic bomb on
the city of Hiroshima, Japan*. It was the first time that a nuclear weapon
was ever used in warfare, and only the second time that a nuclear weapon had
ever been exploded. It was dropped over Hiroshima at 8:15 in the morning. It
exploded 1,900 feet above the ground.

Dropped in the morning, it gave the enemy the entire day to look and see the
result, and then lapse into a very dark and horrifying night. The act was no
empty threat. Morality aside, it ended WWII, a period in which it is
estimated over 100,000,000 people were murdered or died of disease and hunger
and physical abuse. The act ushered in a long period during which the weapon
was never used again.
I had hoped before I die to pay me respects at both the Arizona and Hiroshima,
to complete the political circle. A Venn diagram would be a large black
circle surrounded by a uniform band of blood-red blame extending to the
horizon.
Cost-benefit analysis suggests no to the question, but some are still
attracted to zero-sum thinking. We might try to weed those folk out of
positions of power.

I expect India and Pakistan will get into it.