I was busy all this past weekend, and will be busy all of this coming weekend. I’m hoping to get a gun book post up sometime between Wednesday and Friday, but I’m not sure if that’s going to work out. I did want to get this post up today, though, for obvious reasons.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Exhibition Guide. No author and no publishing information given. I think this is about 68 pages.
There are two sections to this, which are actually printed reversed (as you might gather from the index: apologies for the lousy picture, but I couldn’t get this to sit flat easily). One covers “The Reality of the Atomic Bombing” and “Damage From Radiation” along with introductory material (“Hiroshima Before the Bombing”, “The Atomic Bombing”, “A Lost Way of Life”). The other covers “The Dangers of Nuclear Weapons” and “Hiroshima History”.
This was a gift from my beloved and indulgent sister, who was able to tour Japan recently and brought this back for me.
2 atomic weapons made a horrific Axis nation a victim.
They got what they deserved.
That was an incident that was probably necessary, although there are those who still would debate that.
It was also an incident that more importantly showed just how bad the thought of ever again using nuclear weapons is. Sadly there is little doubt in my mind that of the nations that currently possess nuclear weapons ( the actual number varies depending on just how advanced some countries actual have gotten) several would not hesitate to use them in the event of losing a large scale war. And of those who either possess them or are close to getting them, a number of them would probably not hesitate to use them as a first strike against the nation that they hate the most.
It is a hell of a world that we are leaving to our next generations. I think it was Thomas Paine who said that he didn’t want war, but if war must come, let it come in my generation, that my children should not have to know the horrors of war.
Or something like that. As a patriot, I would still fight for my country at the age of 64. Unfortunately it seems like if I ever do have to fight for my country, it would be in our second civil war to try and return to a semblance of a free nation.
jimmymcnulty and pigpen51:
Thank you for your comments.