The Anniversary of Hiroshima

[Circ Staff]

	Out of a certain moral pickiness, I object to the incineration of
children in all cases -- even when it accomplishes a desirable end.  Call
me over-scrupulous, but I cannot quite bless the bombing of Hiroshima.
	Nonetheless, I see no special guilt on the part of the United 
States.  In World War Two, every country that COULD slaughter civilians 
DID slaughter civilians -- we just improved the technology.  In Dresden, 
Manchuria, Auschwitz, and Siberia, folks murdered other folks by the 
millions, and no one needed J. Robert Oppenheimer to help.

				Andrew Walser
				University of Illinois-Chicago