With unconscionable carnage and up to 85M deaths, the Second World War was the greatest catastrophe in history. In a sense, the atomic bombs were an apt climax to that orgy of butchery.
I wonder why the fact that Nagasaki was the center of Christianity in Japan is seemingly never mentioned in these articles commemorating this very satanic event.
Now I'm mortified. I'd included a comment about that (for which I thought you were commending me). Now I realize I removed the longer paragraph of which it was a part. I'd meant to reinsert the point elsewhere in the article and just realized I forgot to do so. Ugh. I'm glad you raised it because it's an important consideration. Thank you.
{...Retroactive propaganda ... SAVED up to “a million lives”...}
This sentence is eerily similar to the one forked-out and showed down the throats of the global public on a daily basis about the clot-shots ...
As far as I know, TWO nukes were dropped to get a wealth of data on ground-effects in densely populated areas: one from an uranium-, one from a plutonium core ...
The US military-complex got what it wanted (not really needed) .
Tactical nukes are the result and will soon be deployed ...
Curiosity killed not only the cat, but will get us all to the brink of extinction or civilizational collapse.
Yep, for sure history is written by the "winners'. If there is such a thing a winners in war. People that know nothing of nuclear war must remember for every war head , there is one pointing back. Be careful You trigger happy people. Also thanks to Mr. Breen for showing more truth to what historians are slowly bringing forth.
Splendid assessment of our species capacity for savagery.
I especially liked your remark, "Since Nagasaki, an indifference to death has corroded our culture by numbing the morals of wayward man."
However, we differ on the date this indifference began. I contend a capacity for viciousness has always been part of our psyche. Nagasaki was simply a high water mark.
And I further contend that Nagasaki and Hiroshima could have been avoided.
Since it was already known the Japanese wanted to surrender, the Enola Gay could have dropped "Little Boy" --the nickname of its A-Bomb--on an uninhabited island, or even a lightly inhabited one, to demonstrate its destructive capacity.
Now, we'll never know if doing so would have negated the deaths of several hundred thousand innocents at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(Three personal asides: I went to junior high in Bellevue Nebraska where Bockscar was built. This is the name of the B-29 that dropped "Fat Man" --the nickname of its A-Bomb -- on Nagasaki.
Many years later, I was the White House social aid who introduced Emperor Hirohito, the man who started and ended its war with the US, to President Ford, a USN veteran who served in the Pacific, and
A decade ago, while attending my flight school reunion dinner at the Air Force Museum, I sat under the wing of Bockscar.)
Very good points, particularly that the indifference began before Hiroshima. I appreciate your insights, especially with your background. Absolutely fascinating. Thanks again.
I am Catholic and a U.S. military veteran. 4 of my brothers, my father, and numerous uncles and nephews also served active duty. Indeed it is obvious that we committed war crimes and crimes against humanity by our fire bombing civilians, blockade and nuclear bombing. We now see Israel doing it to children in Gaza all while the Jewish lobby claims they are the victims. Israel is committing ethnic cleansing via starvation, blockade and genocide of Christian and Palestinian children in Gaza in 2025.
The casual way that politicians talk about nuclear war is simultaneously crazy and scary. They seem to believe that there is such a thing as victory in a nuclear exchange.
I would rather that people of this ilk would go quietly into an insane asylum or somewhere that their behaviour can be monitored.
The really scary bit is that there are millions of morons who are cheering on this rhetoric.
"Yet men go out and gaze in astonishment at high mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad reaches of rivers, the ocean that encircles the world, or the stars in their course. But they pay no attention to themselves.”
I think the record shows, spinning prequel upon revolving sequel, that the human condition is static.
That no matter how good the “cultures” seem to get, how inspiring the music is, how good the radios are, too many can’t wait, are compelled, are tuned to crackle forward, & back (to the “future”) to the gaps on the dial between the stations & channels that transmit all that good song.
Either people, in the main, can’t hear the music, or they just don’t like it.
Or maybe like “It’s quiet out there”… On The Western Front … “Yeah, too quiet” … too much of a good thing is too rich for the blood & so bring on the blood-letting physicians & the leeches.
“Alfred Nobel, the manufacturer of explosives, was talking to his friend the Baroness Bertha von Suttner, author of Lay Down Your Arms. Von Suttner, a founder of the European antiwar movement, had just attended the fourth World's Peace Conference in Bern. It was August 1892.
"Perhaps my factories will put an end to war even sooner than your congresses," Alfred Nobel said. "On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.” ~ Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker
That’s how the Nobel Peace Prize guy got fab wealthy, selling explosives to all sides who couldn’t get back to between the music fast enough.
And that’s some of the rationalizing gloss he painted over his actions.
Static tacticians will not, probably cannot, say what their true aim is.
But they can’t hide their tells.
“TRUE! -- nervous -- very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses -- not destroyed -- not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily -- how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees -- very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.”
~ The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe … short story … like homo static hi/story
Fool’s Parade. Jimmy Stewart removes his eye (click that button to go right to the scene). They don’t make ‘em like they used to … but the eye-thing, & the hearing-thing, & the horrors Gothic - like Poe limned so well - have been made of & from the same stuff forever. “What we’ve got here is … failure to communicate” cast recycling ♾️ …
I wonder why the fact that Nagasaki was the center of Christianity in Japan is seemingly never mentioned in these articles commemorating this very satanic event.
Now I'm mortified. I'd included a comment about that (for which I thought you were commending me). Now I realize I removed the longer paragraph of which it was a part. I'd meant to reinsert the point elsewhere in the article and just realized I forgot to do so. Ugh. I'm glad you raised it because it's an important consideration. Thank you.
Also a haven for heath reasons, for world travelers...
Great well researched post! Thanks! Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much. Appreciate the kind words.
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{...Retroactive propaganda ... SAVED up to “a million lives”...}
This sentence is eerily similar to the one forked-out and showed down the throats of the global public on a daily basis about the clot-shots ...
As far as I know, TWO nukes were dropped to get a wealth of data on ground-effects in densely populated areas: one from an uranium-, one from a plutonium core ...
The US military-complex got what it wanted (not really needed) .
Tactical nukes are the result and will soon be deployed ...
Curiosity killed not only the cat, but will get us all to the brink of extinction or civilizational collapse.
Yep, for sure history is written by the "winners'. If there is such a thing a winners in war. People that know nothing of nuclear war must remember for every war head , there is one pointing back. Be careful You trigger happy people. Also thanks to Mr. Breen for showing more truth to what historians are slowly bringing forth.
Splendid assessment of our species capacity for savagery.
I especially liked your remark, "Since Nagasaki, an indifference to death has corroded our culture by numbing the morals of wayward man."
However, we differ on the date this indifference began. I contend a capacity for viciousness has always been part of our psyche. Nagasaki was simply a high water mark.
And I further contend that Nagasaki and Hiroshima could have been avoided.
Since it was already known the Japanese wanted to surrender, the Enola Gay could have dropped "Little Boy" --the nickname of its A-Bomb--on an uninhabited island, or even a lightly inhabited one, to demonstrate its destructive capacity.
Now, we'll never know if doing so would have negated the deaths of several hundred thousand innocents at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(Three personal asides: I went to junior high in Bellevue Nebraska where Bockscar was built. This is the name of the B-29 that dropped "Fat Man" --the nickname of its A-Bomb -- on Nagasaki.
Many years later, I was the White House social aid who introduced Emperor Hirohito, the man who started and ended its war with the US, to President Ford, a USN veteran who served in the Pacific, and
A decade ago, while attending my flight school reunion dinner at the Air Force Museum, I sat under the wing of Bockscar.)
Very good points, particularly that the indifference began before Hiroshima. I appreciate your insights, especially with your background. Absolutely fascinating. Thanks again.
I am Catholic and a U.S. military veteran. 4 of my brothers, my father, and numerous uncles and nephews also served active duty. Indeed it is obvious that we committed war crimes and crimes against humanity by our fire bombing civilians, blockade and nuclear bombing. We now see Israel doing it to children in Gaza all while the Jewish lobby claims they are the victims. Israel is committing ethnic cleansing via starvation, blockade and genocide of Christian and Palestinian children in Gaza in 2025.
The casual way that politicians talk about nuclear war is simultaneously crazy and scary. They seem to believe that there is such a thing as victory in a nuclear exchange.
I would rather that people of this ilk would go quietly into an insane asylum or somewhere that their behaviour can be monitored.
The really scary bit is that there are millions of morons who are cheering on this rhetoric.
God help us all.
"Yet men go out and gaze in astonishment at high mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad reaches of rivers, the ocean that encircles the world, or the stars in their course. But they pay no attention to themselves.”
- Saint Augustine, Confessions
I think the record shows, spinning prequel upon revolving sequel, that the human condition is static.
That no matter how good the “cultures” seem to get, how inspiring the music is, how good the radios are, too many can’t wait, are compelled, are tuned to crackle forward, & back (to the “future”) to the gaps on the dial between the stations & channels that transmit all that good song.
Either people, in the main, can’t hear the music, or they just don’t like it.
Or maybe like “It’s quiet out there”… On The Western Front … “Yeah, too quiet” … too much of a good thing is too rich for the blood & so bring on the blood-letting physicians & the leeches.
“Alfred Nobel, the manufacturer of explosives, was talking to his friend the Baroness Bertha von Suttner, author of Lay Down Your Arms. Von Suttner, a founder of the European antiwar movement, had just attended the fourth World's Peace Conference in Bern. It was August 1892.
"Perhaps my factories will put an end to war even sooner than your congresses," Alfred Nobel said. "On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.” ~ Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker
That’s how the Nobel Peace Prize guy got fab wealthy, selling explosives to all sides who couldn’t get back to between the music fast enough.
And that’s some of the rationalizing gloss he painted over his actions.
Static tacticians will not, probably cannot, say what their true aim is.
But they can’t hide their tells.
“TRUE! -- nervous -- very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses -- not destroyed -- not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily -- how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees -- very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.”
~ The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe … short story … like homo static hi/story
https://poestories.com/read/telltaleheart
The Eye of Providence? All evidence points to, convicts of, Improvidence.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zMpCTNDCz-E/Uv1HmhJK5NI/AAAAAAAAhXM/d7nppyuZ_V8/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/1.png
Fool’s Parade. Jimmy Stewart removes his eye (click that button to go right to the scene). They don’t make ‘em like they used to … but the eye-thing, & the hearing-thing, & the horrors Gothic - like Poe limned so well - have been made of & from the same stuff forever. “What we’ve got here is … failure to communicate” cast recycling ♾️ …
https://archive.org/details/fools-parade-1971/James+Stewart+Removes+His+Eye+(Sample).mp4
Guns & Roses, Civil War:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOaNSVFX5u0&list=RDzOaNSVFX5u0&start_radio=1
That picture from the plane leaving the scene of the crime, if real, tells the whole story!....