Hiroshima
Visited the Hiroshima museum and memorial today for some slightly more hard hitting reality. Totally amazing and interesting place for many reasons.
When I was a kid I was certain that one day their would be a Nuclear War. I didn't know much about news or politics, so I didn't expect to see it announced on the news, or be aware of a buildup in world tension. It would just come one day without any sign or warning. A sudden white flash on the horizon followed by a Nuclear Winter. Destruction would be total. The only question was whether or not that would happen in my lifetime.
I don't know when I stopped expecting that, or why... but I did. Thinking about it now it probably is still a certainty. There's no uninventing the atom bomb unfortunately. The chances of all-out Cold War style annihilation seem to have subsided for now, but with some of the idiots in the world at the moment the actual chances of an another Nuclear strike seem ever more likely.
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