Whenever you can, please watch this documentary on HBO, which details the tragedy of the American nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, during World War II
The survivor accounts are particularly chilling, and serve as a gruesome reminder of the level of destruction that can be wrought by a single weapon. Just think, also, that the weapons
in various arsenals today are hundreds of times more powerful and destructive than those dropped on Japan. I am not ashamed to say that
I cried during this documentary. Oh how quickly we forget. Two bombs killed over two hundred thousand people. A further one hundred and sixty thousand died
in the following decades as a result of the effects of deadly radioactive fallout.
How ironic that the same country that used these weapons in anger (and still posseses them in secret) now wants to prevent certain 'rogue states' from possesing them also.
Some on this forum may argue that 'all is fair in love and war' and 'America was at war at the time'. Perhaps the same argument can be used for September 11th 2001 eh.....
but I digress.
Folks, this is recommended family viewing. Children need to understand that this world is not just about MTV, passa-passa, and PS3. [/end rant]
