Blessing the Bombs

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Father Geroge Zeblanka, a Catholic Chaplain with the U.S. Air Force, served as a priest for the airmen who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and gave them his blessing. Days later he counseled an airman who had flown a low-level reconnaissance flight over the city of Nagasaki shortly after the detonation of “Fat Man.” The man described how thousands of scorched, twisted bodies writhed on the ground in the final throes of death, while those still on their feet wandered aimlessly in shock—flesh seared, melted, and falling off. The crewman’s description raised a stifled cry from the depths of Zabelka’s soul: “My God, what have we done?”

http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/zabelka-hiroshima.htm?source=DailyDig

Footage from just after the dropping of the bombs was hidden for nearly 60 years. Some has recently become available. There is a show this weekend on Sundance called Original Child Bomb that will have some of this footage.

With Cheney and cohorts already beginning the drumbeat for war on Iran and the development of "small tactical" nuclear bombs, it is the responsibility of Americans to acquaint themselves with what is being contemplated.