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oldman_13
Amazing that South Korea is visiting, but good to see them put aside differences so that we may never see nuclear war ever again.
JonathanJo
If nuclear weapons had never been developed, maybe many more conventional wars would have been fought and people killed in the years since. MAD has been good, but remains so only while nuclear states are not ruled by complete madmen.
mukashiyokatta
Obama attended. Where is Trump?
Pukey2
Trump's got to go. I mean, isn't he Botchan's BFF?
Halwick
Here we go again, with more speeches depicting the wrongness in the use of the atomic bomb and pleas for nuclear weapons abolishment.
In 1959, Mitsuo Fuchida, the pilot who led the first wave in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, met with Paul Tibbets, who piloted the Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and told him that:
(Source: Clear Conscience: The Atom Bomb Vs. the Super Holocaust, page 87, Raymond Davis)
Fuchida, a Japanese hero, who coordinated the entire aerial attack that started the war and who was present in Hiroshima at the end of the war, believes the U.S. did the right thing to end the war as they did. Who are we, who were not there, to argue with him?
Serrano
"Among the world's nuclear powers, Britain, France and Russia will send their envoys, but China does not plan to"
Why not?
Too bad Japan's leaders didn't surrender 5 months earlier after a good portion of Tokyo and other cities were burnt down and more people killed than in Hiroshima in the firebombings in March.
Goodlucktoyou
whats the point, how many nukes have been gone? USA and Russia are developing new models.