File this under "educational"
Today is Hiroshima day. In three days it will be the anniversary of the Nagasaki bomb. 230,000 were killed, 100,000 of them in less than ten minutes. Those that weren't vaporized were torn and burned beyond recognition. Most did not die quickly, some taking weeks or even months to perish from their injuries. The universal feeling in America and throughout the world was that this must never happen again.
This article is an excellent way to give a moment of reflection on the events of those days.
"Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
http://www.rense.com/general39/rememb.htm
America's military has chosen to mark this anniversary with a secret meeting to produce a new "strategic" nuclear force (A-Bombs that would be deployed and most likely used), to renew testing and break the nonproliferation treaty.
Why today? What a bizzarre and callous way to acknowledge this anniversary.
In today's Guardian a story about the meeting, " 'Dr Strangeloves' meet to plan new nuclear era".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1013690,00.html
This article was on July 31st, "USA scraps nuclear weapons watchdog."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1009497,00.html
My links don't work so you'll have to copy and paste to read the articles. Notice these stories are in a Brittish newspaper, not an American one.
sorry, this is on my mind today... only links I felt like sharing.
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