The 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The next weekend, August 6th is the 60yh anniversary from the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You can support the action of Greenpeace. You can send a short messege about your hopes for nuclear free and peaceful world. All messeges will be printed on feather-shared cards and put on dove-shared balloons that will be flown in Horoshima on August 5th at 8:15a.m. (exactly 24 hours before the aniversary).

http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/cyberaction/hiroshima60/en?nro=gpi

 

...or just join the "emissaries of peace" concert in hiroshima and nagasaki by carlos santana, herbie hancock and wayne shorter

 

I remember clips from last year on the news. They showed places on the cement that still had an image burned into them from where people were vaporized.

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...and now he has 2 heads.

Anyhow, I do not believe that a world without nuclear weapons is possible. The threat of nuclear weapons is the only defence of some countries against complete terrorist takeovers. (the USA among others).

 

I don't want a nuclear free world, fusion and fission energy are great ideas, and if utilised correctly nuclear weapons could be useful (obviously not on the earth) the box has been opened, it's not being closed and it's absurd to want to, granted I don't want politicians controlling nuclear weapons, they get to hide in their bunkers and fire them off, they don't have to see the ramifications immediatly, there are very few people alive today who can still comprehend what happened then, and because of this as generations pass and the people forget these weapons are more likely to get used


they aren't going away. that is the way of things.......

 

The I Saw It and Barefoot Gen series by Keiji Nakazawa. A survivor of the Hiroshima bombing, Nakazawa wrote and drew this comic book in 1972 about his own life and experience in Hiroshima before, during, and after the atomic bombing. In it, he rages not only against the bomb, but also at the militarists who led Japan into war. His editor encouraged him to create a longer work based on this comic, and Nakazawa began work on Barefoot Gen. An intensely personal, child's-eye view of the horrors of the atomic bomb, and of war in general.

I'd highly reccomend these comics to anybody. They really drive it home, he really was there.

 

it's very sad to c young guys like quest techie and bravesirubin here so.. what, fatalistic about it. the world desperately needs a generation of young rebels to come through. i hope it's soon.

 

I save my energy for more important issues.