THIS week, the first week of August, marks the anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing at Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. After Japan's devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Pacific theater front of World War, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt said that that day would go down in history as a “day of infamy.” Indeed, the callous cruelty of that attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese is remembered as a day of infamy, but much of the world today regards August 6, 1945 as a day of equal infamy. Which makes the current state of world affairs in terms of nuclear development so truly incredible. There have been only two atomic bombs used in war, the first in Hiroshima and the second soon after in Nagasaki. Never before had so many people been killed, maimed and injured so that years later they would succumb to the eventual effects of the bombs. And not since has such single disaster resulted in such widespread mayhem. The so-called “nuclear club” has only expanded its membership since those bleak days of World War II. And there are still more countries vying to join up. India and Pakistan, traditional enemies, have often been predicted the most likely to utilize their nuclear arsenal against one another, but that has not come to pass. And now the world waits on edge for the final outcome of what is surely Iran's program to develop its own nuclear weapon. For use against whom is anyone's guess as that nation is so out-gunned by those countries opposing its nuclear weapons program that any use of a nuclear weapon on Iran's part would trigger a reaction that would leave Iran disabled for decades. It is imperative, then, that every newspaper, every TV station, every radio program and every news-oriented website make sure to commemorate this day of infamy when the human race found it necessary to unleash its most terrible weapon ever developed. The horrendous pain and suffering resulting from the use of such technology should be seared into the mind of every human being, young and old, currently inhabiting the earth. The development and creation of more nuclear weapons, no matter which country is doing it, should be recognized as the crime against humanity that it truly is. __
