FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Hiroshima -- 65 years later

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: August 6, 2010 5:14:01 PM CDT
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion Group Discussion Group <hidisc [at] 
> humanistinstitute.org>
> 
> 
> This was OUR bomb -- and is coming to be another day that will live in infamy 
> (was it necessary; wasn't surrender already on the table; was it really 
> important to keep the Russians away from the table; does war work/did it 
> ever?)
> 
> Along with reading Howard Zinn's last book that raises such issues, this ABC 
> video and story might help re-educate ourselves.
> 
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> http://abcnews.go.com/International/hibakusha-survived-hiroshima-nagasaki-nuclear-free-world/story?id=11334084&page=1\\
> 
> Must we not stand beside these Hibakusha -- and teach our present world what 
> has become more likely?
> 
> Bob
> 
> (personal admission: One year later, at Bikini in 1946, I was exposed to 
> enough radiation to be recently designated a disabled veteran)
> 
>