60 YEARS AGO:

The Trinity Test
July 16 1945, 5:29:45 A.M. (Mountain War Time)

Trinity Site Zero, Alamogordo Test Range,
Jornada del Muerto desert.

Yield: 20-22 Kilotons

If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky,
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds.

from
The Bhagavad-Gita

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On August 6th 1945 the Japanese city of Hiroshima was devastated by a nuclear bomb and then on August 9th Nagasaki. It's estimated that 120,000 people died outright and about twice that over time from radiation related diseases.

First and only so far. We are NUMBER ONE. USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!!!

"Why do 'they' hate us?"

"Who cares, let's nuke 'em. " People actually say this. Snarling-head radio hosts, has-been butt rockers, FAUX journalists, pop culture saturated nincompoops who can't even remotely conceive of what they're saying.

What has gone wrong?

We've turned away from God, you say.

Nah. It's the believers, or the people who say they are, who say "let's nuke 'em". There are virulent strains of Christianity that invite it.

I'm just at a loss sometimes to make any kind of sense of 'where we're at'.

We kill people to show that killing is wrong.

As The Fugs song had it, we "Kill for Peace."

Why is the world Hobbesian and not Winstanleyean?

I just don't know...

I'm no help at all...
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