tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105609655817239699.post5175744006282389566..comments2023-10-20T07:51:45.504-04:00Comments on Prof. Wombat: second opinion: Remember: 6 August 1945ProfWombathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11251229209601018545noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105609655817239699.post-89855555874416610422010-08-06T22:49:54.905-04:002010-08-06T22:49:54.905-04:00Then there's the tens of thousands we've a...Then there's the tens of thousands we've accumulated since. They just might not be necessary, either.<br /><br />Every year I bring up the dawn of the age of nuclear weapons. And folk good and bad, lefty and righty, warrior and pacifist, almost invariably center their responses on Truman's decision to use them, rather than the deep questions arising from their very existence. It isn't easy to wrap yourself around the notion that we're one mistake from destroying the world with madness. Or that, having unequivocally demonstrated ourselves capable of doing so in one manner, we have every possibility of doing so in some other way. Placing, seems to me, limits, grave limits, on human actions that simply never existed before 6 Aug 1945. And which are barely acknowledged.ProfWombathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11251229209601018545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105609655817239699.post-90576589162977531422010-08-06T16:00:15.156-04:002010-08-06T16:00:15.156-04:00Even if the first bomb were by some sick and twist...Even if the first bomb were by some sick and twisted logic "necessary" to end WWII, the 2nd one sure wasn't. All those people were killed to send a message to Russia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com