59 years ago today...

[unclejimbo]

The world changed.

We dropped a single bomb and the city of Hiroshima was destroyed. Thus began the Nuclear Age.

On Monday, it will be the 59th Anniversary of the dropping of another single bomb. That one destroyed the city of Nagasaki.

Historians and others will be debating whether or not the correct decision was the use these weapons or not, but this weekend should be a time where we reflect upon what happened and decide if we could live with using these terrible weapons again.

In 1945, the death toll was a little more than 300,000. Roughly the equivalent of Peoria, Illinois. This weekend, remember those who died. Most were innocents.

Here's the story from Yahoo.

Comments

[musicalchaos.livejournal.com]

*sighs in despair* and to think people go to war so quickly and easily these days, confident that we can do what we want without any problems or real conflict, no price paid... Beyond the issue of the lives lost, and the horror of what happened... There's also... the amount of history that was lost... if memory serves... Hiroshima was home to one of the largest and oldest Japanese libraries/museums/etc in the country, and to think of all the knowledge, the documents, and the potential of the people that was lost is sickening, especially in light of current circumstances, and that people talk so quickly and easily about bombing somewhere else, without fully understanding the weight of that talk... *sighs again* Sorry... this is just... a personal.... ethical concern for me. A pet peeve.. but far larger if you will.