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Just a Rememberance....
August 6th (yesterday) marked the 77th anniversary of the dropping of Fat Man on Hiroshima. Wasn't much fanfare here (USA), maybe a footnote on some national news broadcasts, but not all. Certainly not a day to "celebrate", since between 129,000 and 226,000 Japanese (mostly civilians) died that day, but a day to remember since the world changed forever on that date! How wars were fought, won or lost had a new option with horrific consequences which have led us to the present day term "Mutually Assured Destruction"--should be a scary thought. It is somewhat astounding that in the past 77 years since the introduction of the "nuclear option" into warfare, and the seeming proliferation of various rulers of countries with seemingly various levels of sanity and intelligence that we haven't managed to spark a conflict that would turn our precious earth into a wasteland! Is it just blind luck, or are we maybe smarter that we give ourselves credit for?