Hiroshima - 60 Years of Atomic and Nuclear threat.

[trevor826]

August 6th 2005 will mark 60 years since the use of the first atomic weapon, an event that changed the whole world and a weapon that is still claiming victims all these years later.

Probably the biggest singular act of terrorism in history and one where the facts of the explosion and the death toll directly from the blast and through the following years of men, women and children have been hidden from the public.

The course was set for the future and even now countries are experimenting with even larger nuclear warheads, why?

Trev.

[pmw]

wonder if they're will be/are revealing films that will be shown on or around the 6th... thanks for that Trev.
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[hengcs]

I was in Japan in 1992, and I visited Nagasaki.
There was a male statue there pointing towards the sky (i.e., where the atomic bomb was dropped), symbolizing peace.

So, let there be peace on earth ...
;)

[hengcs]

Hey,

here is the statue

http://cruises.about.com/library/pictures/japan/blnagasaki03.htm

http://www.at-nagasaki.jp/foreign/english/1/4_06e.html

[pmw]

unfortunately we seem not to have learned much from our war attrocities. Nor has Japan, as they denounce claims of war attrocities they committed throughout Asia. Why are we all so fucking proud...

[trevor826]

Pride & arrogance = ignorance, this is why after all the time we've existed on this universal speck of dust we as a species keep on making the same stupid mistakes.

We must have some sort of inbuilt self destruct mechanism, we consider ourselves advanced but we're just base animals, our history, particularly if we can look at it with honesty and an open mind should shame us enough to ensure that no more atrocities are commited.

Cheers Trev.