Antinuclear

Hiroshima- Never Again. Ban Nuclear Weapons

The horror of Hiroshima and the bomb: 70 years on https://independentaustralia.net/article-display/the-horror-of-hiroshima-and-the-bomb-70-years-on,8020

On 6 August, it will be the 70th anniversary of the day America dropped a nuclear bomb on the people of Hiroshima and then Nagasaki.

The incredible horror of those events, with thousands killed and millions more affected by radiation, was burnt into my memory. I was at school that day. I remember walking the mile to and from it, picking buttercups and playing with a frog on the edge of a drain; stopping to watch a brown butterfly enjoying life and listening to a soaring lark. Then listening to the ugly news of WWII that night, realising that the dropping of nuclear bombs created an incredible, new enormity.

These days, it seems like a nightmare most Australians do not remember, or of which they have no comprehension. So much has changed, with women busily rushing to work and shopping, as if food and clothing were the most important things in life; where, in busy restaurants, “to eat, drink and be merry” is the daily mantra and only fleeting thoughts are given to our marvellous world, with its spring blossoms and bird song; and even less to the really important action we should be taking to keep our island and our planet as each is — a wonderful place in which to live.

Is this because we cannot bear to acknowledge the underlying fear we have because we cannot control earthquakes, global warming and nuclear disasters? Certainly, earthquakes and the moving of the tectonic plates below us, are beyond control, but we can do something about man-made problems……..

Perhaps if we, the people, acted together with courage and took class actions against those Governments possessing nuclear weapons, the United Nations for being inactive and those who work in the nuclear industry, so that the people with the power to act were forced to get rid of these obscene weapons, we could all feel that we, who are living now, had done something worthwhile in our time on Earth to rid it of the fear that was created 70 years ago when Hiroshima was destroyed. https://independentaustralia.net/article-display/the-horror-of-hiroshima-and-the-bomb-70-years-on,8020

August 4, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News