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defrogSo it’s been 65 years since the US dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima.
In theory I could do a long reflective post on this – radioactive genocide, horrors of war, children of the mushroom cloud growing up under the Doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction, etc.
But what’s the point? Sixty-five years later, the arguments for and against the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs haven’t changed much, and for my money they pretty much boil down to this: either you find it horrifying or you don’t, and you can either justify it anyway or you can’t.
And the fact is that many of us can, and we’re still finding new ways to love the bomb (provided it stays in Responsible Hands) and making the same old excuses – peace through superior firepower, it’s better to blow up the entire planet than let someone else blow up our own country, etc. Which will make a fine epitaph when the aliens find the charred cinder that used to be Earth. “Earth: if we can’t have it, no one can.”
So while we're waiting for that, I’m just going to use today as an excuse to post a Fluke video (because Dr Strangelove clips seemed to obvious, and Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees’ “Cities In Dust” is technically about Pompeii).
Push the button,
This is dF
In theory I could do a long reflective post on this – radioactive genocide, horrors of war, children of the mushroom cloud growing up under the Doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction, etc.
But what’s the point? Sixty-five years later, the arguments for and against the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs haven’t changed much, and for my money they pretty much boil down to this: either you find it horrifying or you don’t, and you can either justify it anyway or you can’t.
And the fact is that many of us can, and we’re still finding new ways to love the bomb (provided it stays in Responsible Hands) and making the same old excuses – peace through superior firepower, it’s better to blow up the entire planet than let someone else blow up our own country, etc. Which will make a fine epitaph when the aliens find the charred cinder that used to be Earth. “Earth: if we can’t have it, no one can.”
So while we're waiting for that, I’m just going to use today as an excuse to post a Fluke video (because Dr Strangelove clips seemed to obvious, and Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees’ “Cities In Dust” is technically about Pompeii).
Push the button,
This is dF
