Pondering birthdays. My fathers birthday is August 9th, and his sister’s (my aunt’s) birthday is August 6th. On August 6th, 1945 the United States dropped the first Atomic Bomb. We dropped it on Hiroshima, Japan. On August 9th, the same year, we dropped the second Atomic bomb, the first plutonium …
Hiroshima Day
Today is Hiroshima Day, the 63rd anniversary of the first atomic bomb attack in history. The Doomsday Clock sits at 5 minutes to twelve. Advancing two minutes in January of 2007 a reflection of global failures to solve the problems posed by nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, the decision …
