Hibakusha

[David Gentle]

> The American dropped two Atomic bombs on Japan during W.W.II. Those acts
> were acts of cruelty and violence inflicted by an enemy armed force on
> civilians and prisoners, wartime atrocities.
>
I can accept that killing civilians may be (and in some circumstances definately is) an atrocity but
I don't see why it matters what weapon was used for it. Thousands of civilians were killed with
normal munitions in Germany. Does the fact that they weren't nuked make the allies actions any more
humane?

> Collective nuclear suicide can be avoided. The solution is to get rid of
> all the nukes.
> It can be done.
>
But not overnight.
The existance of the nuclear weapoons is the greatest test humanity has ever faced. So far we're
doing pretty well and there's no sign that things will actuall get much worse.

David Gentle