Thursday, August 6, 2009

Never Forget...

...the great responsibility that comes with great power...



Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

14 comments:

  1. Whoa! that's a classic pic.. though heartrending. A good eye-opener and reminder for all the big nations to stop those nuke testings for good. -__-

    PS: Japanese are an awesome nation aren't they? comparing then and now..

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  2. Yes, agree with Harumi. War is such a scary scary thing... so very glad the war has ceased in SL, hope it will soon be on a global scale, if it does... won't be a minute too soon.

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  3. @Harumi and MTC: humans have been fighting since the beginning of time and they'll continue to do so, sadly... but nuclear weapons just cross that line, don't they? there's nothing 'precision guided' about them, you can never use it in a war field (hence usage on civilian dwellings and huge cities) and it just ruins the land, kills everyone in the blast radius and contaminates the atmosphere with radioactive fallout... Nuclear bombs were one of my pet subjects during the first year of my A/Ls (did a project on them too) and the raw power stored in them, if put to good use, can serve humanity for centuries... but we use them to kill and maim, typical human behavior... the mayor of Hiroshima said he wishes for a Nuke-free world by 2020, and President Obama has also said he wants that to happen, so for future generations' sake let's hope those words become actions... :)

    p.s: yes, the Japanese are awesome! :) I guess most of the Nuclear bombs today have electronics made in Japan in them! hehe ;)

    thanks for the comments guys! :)

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  4. You did a project on nuke bomb? What exactly..??

    World is never safe what ever Obama says ;)

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  5. Wow Chavie.. you're like a walking encyclopedia! =D

    True.. that's human nature. -__- Hopefully the big leaders would keep their words.

    Off topic, someone once predicted that doomsday was around 2012 or something right? Wonder if he was talking about the next nuke war = WW III. -__-

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  6. True that @Kirigalpoththa!

    "World is never safe what ever Obama says ;)"
    NEVARRRRR!

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  7. @Kigigalpoththa and GG: I knooowwww... 'politicians'! :D but significant denuclearization and nuclear non-proliferation are achievable goals... :)

    The project was about Nuclear power in general, both Fusion and Fission. Learned about how the Atomic bomb (Fission bomb) and Hydrogen Bomb (Fusion bomb) work and how the power can be harnessed in a reactor... :)

    @Harumi: lol, on selected subjects maybe a bit! ;) you can't believe politicians till they do what they say, can you? ;)

    lol, 2012, that would be Pani Bunis ;) hehe who knows? Nuclear war, some flu Pandemic, Asteroids, Tsunamis, or a combination thereof! :D I can just say that Human Civilization is fickle... maybe the species will survive but civilization will not... :D (aren't I terribly cheery about the destruction of the Earth?! hehe)

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  8. What happened to Twitter and who is this guy 'George' ?

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  9. a DDoS attack took it offline... George is some Georgian blogger lu, I've never heard of him before though... :)

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  10. @Sachintha: I agree that both the Germans and the Japanese were brutal, the Germans with their indiscriminate firebombings and concentration camps and carrying out the Holocaust, and the Japanese through the unspeakable atrocities committed in Korea and China. And they enjoyed backing from the general populace... but think about it this way, our government for 30 years waged a pretty dirty war against the LTTE, at most times with support from the populace. and that didn't justify the LTTE's suicide bombings against civilian targets did it?

    but basically my point is that Nuclear war is unbelievably destructive. We have a stockpile of weapons that can destroy all humanity in an instant if used. That's way too much power resting on the hands of a select few. I really doubt America or Russia or China would ever use nukes again, but what if it falls onto the hands of stateless terrorist groups... Al Qaeda, or other terror groups. Imagine the destruction...

    did America have the right to use Nuke bombs on Japan? of course it did.

    was it strictly necessary? Maybe, the Japanese were ready to fight to the death.

    doesn't make what happened any less regrettable...

    thanks for the comment Sach! :)

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  11. @Sach: I will not paint Japan as the good guy. Japan invaded Asia because the US was cutting off oil and raw material supplies to Japan, but I don't think it was the right course of action, I don't think China or South East Asia deserved what they got and I certainly don't agree with empire-building: no matter who's doing it.

    The US, French, Russians and the Brits were the good guys and their actions saved the world from a brutal future. I don't dispute that in any way. I didn't put it in the blogpost since I don't believe that the end justifies the means... The people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki certainly didn't deserve what they got.

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  12. Ya.. I've stopped believing in them since my schooling days.. -__- Though some odd ones surprisingly do things they actually say! lol

    That link had a cool post.. thanks. =D Um.. ya, there's too many catastrophes to expect. -__- hehe.. you do sound like that. =D Um.. I too enjoy disasters.. but only in movies! =D

    PS: whoa! that's some serious discussion between you and Sach.. =D But I did learn a lot. War is something inevitable yet it is avoidable, if only people used their brains instead of hearts. *um.. maybe not!* =D

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  13. @Harumi: those are the dangerous ones, the ones who do what they say... ;) lol

    hahaha I don't really enjoy them anywhere (not a big disaster movie fan)... human suffering kinda turns me off... ;)

    if people use logic instead of love... I dunno, of course it'll prevent war and poverty and all kinds of human stupidity... but I've watched what it did to the Vulcans and I really don't think I'd want to live in a society like that... well atleast my heart doesn't! ;) hehe

    Thanks for the comment Harumi! :)

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