‘Hiroshima a reminder of why world must be free of nuclear arms’

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayArticle.asp?col=§ion=theworld&xfile=data/theworld/2005/August/theworld_August158.xml

VIENNA - The horror of Hiroshima should remind the world that nuclear weapons must be eradicated, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Friday ahead of the 60th anniversary of the first nuclear bombing.

“We should remain humbled by what we have learned from the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” IAEA secretary general Mohamed ElBaradei said of two Japanese cities devastated by US atomic bombs on August 6 and 9, 1945.

“We cannot allow 60 years to soften our memories ... let us instead ensure that what happened are once again a catalyst for a new way of thinking,” he added.

“The only way to prevent future Hiroshimas and Nagasakis is to bring about an end to all nuclear weapons.”

[RoyGBiv]

1. Original Child Bomb

I posted this elsewhere, but I'll continue with the advertisement.

The Sundance Channel is showing _Original Child Bomb_ Saturday at 7PM Central time. It is based on a lot of formerly classified footage taken by both Japanese and American cameras in the days and weeks after the blast.

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[Journeyman]

2. Viktor Frankl, renowned psychotherapist & Auschwitz survivor, wrote. . .

“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

"So let us be alert — alert in a twofold sense:

"Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.

"And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”

[wli]

3. here comes Cheney's nuclear MIHOP...

[Spinzonner]

4. What would the world have been like post-WW II WITHOUT the bomb

existance ? Would the Cold War have remained cold or turned into an even more devastaing hot war than WW II ?

Be careful what you wish for. MAD may have kept the madness under a degree of self-control.