The Day the United States Unleashed A Demon On The World – A Time for Reflection

by Robert Wilkinson

68 years ago the US ended a war through mass murder and unleashing the nuclear demon on our planet.

Born of Nazi research on heavy water, on this day in 1945 the US dropped the first nuclear bomb in history on Hiroshima to prove the point that it would do anything to “win” WWII. While ending wars is always a good thing, this way unleashed the horror of the nuclear demon. Once let out of its cage, it set off an arms race that came close to blowing up the planet during the Cold War.

I cannot say that someone wouldn’t have come up with nuclear energy had the Nazis not done their experiments, but I must reflect on the fact that nuclear weaponry was originally a Nazi concept. That would seem to make it a bad thing, regardless of whatever “good” may have come out of nuclear technology. Anything that totalitarian cannot be a good thing for our fragile Earth and its creatures.

So today please take a moment to meditate on the 90,000 who died in an instant, fried beyond comprehension by the most horrific force ever unleashed on humans by other humans. Almost as many died of radiation poisoning in the 4 months that followed. A miserable way to die, that type of inhumane insanity must never happen again.

I personally affirm that nuclear everything will be banished from this Earth forever as soon as possible, and that until that time, may there be no more nuclear energy spread anywhere on Earth by any means. No more nukes!

© Copyright 2013 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Micheline]

Me tooo! No more Nukes. There is good news that there are groups doing demonstrations on a regular basis here in Tokyo. But we need to find alternatives!!!

[Elah]

An overwhelmingly insane act....and I wonder, have we learned from this? Do we human beings understand the delicate balance of our Gaia's ecosystem and the effects that our ego-based actions have on her? I pray that we do.

[AlwaysHope]

The decision to drop the A-bomb on that day would have to be one of the most difficult decisions anyone could have made in the 20th century. It seems it was a choice between more Allied soldiers being killed and massive amounts of money continuously being spent to support the war effort, or demonstrate to the Japanese government and thus the rest of the world, namely the European war what the US is capable of.

[Garden]

I'm a big fan of Einstein... he too was horrified at how his discoveries were used