THE atom bomb.
Correct me if I am wrong, but weren't there TWO?
One that was dropped on Nagasaki, and one that was dropped on Hiroshima?
Why do we always seem to forget that, or graze over it?
Like the way we mention the atom bombs like they are just more bombs that maybe landed on a house and destroyed it, maybe killed a few people... They effectively ended the way because they were so powerful. Yet, they are always just mentioned in passing - effectively slipped in to our vocab. like they are nothing special.
They OBLITERATED everything.
Cities were destroyed.
People were turned to ASH where they stood.
Why don't we see these images when we talk about the atom bomb?
Maybe we picture the mushroom cloud because those images are so famous, but then they are so famous that they don't shock us any more. They have been normalised in our minds. For a mushroom cloud that big, imagine the size of the bomb, please, and think about HOW MUCH IT DESTROYED.
How can we just mention this devastation like it was no worse than any other bomb?
And the people! Their lives were gone. Everything they owned, loved, cared about was gone. They are burnt, scarred, OBLITERATED WHERE THEY STAND. They are turned to shadows on the ground, right were they stood, alive, just moments before.
Then they are poisoned by the radiation, and it effects the children they have, and it effects their children's children. Birth defects, physical impairments, mental disability. Lives ruined for generations, and why?
Because America wanted to show how powerful they were. They had weapons powerful enough to end a war. I think Japan saw this and surrendered because they realised the cost of human life wasn't worth whatever they were fighting for. At least, I sincerely hope they thought that.
America just doesn't stop does it? It is pretty arguably the most powerful country in the world, and of course it has nuclear weapons. Like all the other countries that hav nuclear weapons, no one is really trying to hide the fact. In fact, it's become a source of competition. The majority of the worlds leaders are just fighting to show off who has the most power, aren't they? I mean, why else do you become the leader of a powerful country? To help the people in it, or to take control of it? To have a stake in controlling the world we live in too.
So this is what it boils down to, huh? Leaders fighting for power, proud of their technological advancements, their "improvements" in weaponry - always finding new and better ways to kill more people... Their pride will be their downfall, and they will drag us all and this beautiful world with them. They will fight and compete until someone is stupid enough to show off and fire a nuclear missile, and start a nuclear war and they say only the cockroaches can survive that. What hope do we have as humans if our leaders are in control of the destiny of this world? I just hope they listen to those ancient Greeks and their plays about hubris, and how the proud man never wins. We act them out time and time again, we know them, we know the characters and yet we never seem to learn. And if we know, why aren't we doing something to make the world leaders know what we know? Could we even do that?
Maybe. Maybe we're all just going to end up like this. Except there'll be no one to take our picture and make someone angry about the ignorance and injustice in the future. There probably won't even be bodies to find, or earth to find them on...
We've progressed well as a species, haven't we?
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