Dear Nettimers, Thanks David for your recollection of the Cuban Missile Crisis and for adding the link to the Guardian article; both of which are extremely important and tend to be glossed over or else buried deep in the sub-conscious out of dread or fear; to add to this discussion I am adding a link to a film I made some time ago: THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI (https://vimeo.com/672655039 <https://vimeo.com/672655039>). Besides the fact that while people know about the actual bombing of these cities there is a lack of common knowledge about how and why. The atomic bomb was developed in complete secrecy and when they were used a massive propaganda campaign was launched to justify their use - mainly that it brought an end to the war with Japan and saved thousands of lives. In retrospect (as many historians have revealed) this rationale was highly questionable if not completely wrong. When hearing the flippant way some commentators are talking about the war in Ukraine and nuclear weapons I wonder what kind of insane universe these people inhabit. Thanks again David for bringing this up. Best Allan
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