[ RadSafe ] Re: Radiotheology: Understanding Hiroshima

[Peter Bossew]

This is cynical.
But very true.
Unfortunately.

p

(I must add "radiotheology" to my vocabulary...)


Jerry Cohen wrote:
> You don't seem to understand radiotheology. Like the "immaculate 
> conception" and the "burning bush" tenets in other religions, 
> Hiroshima provides the fundamental basis establishing the truly evil 
> nature of anything "nuclear", including nuclear power , and food 
> irradiation. To the true believer, those who die of radiation-related 
> injuries are far more dead than those blown up or burned by 
> conventional munitions. Got it?    JJC
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brennan, Mike (DOH)" 
> <Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV>
> To: "Peter Bossew" <peter.bossew at jrc.it>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:54 AM
> Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] RE: [AMRSO] On This Day( NY Times) 
> -Observationof Moment of Silence
>
>
> There were far, far more than just two crimes; there were almost an 
> infinite number of crimes, with most of them committed or ordered by 
> those controlling the Japanese government.  There is no justification 
> at all to believe that those committing the crimes would stop, short 
> of such overwhelming force as to kill them or break Japan's ability to 
> continue the War.  The resolve of the Western Allies (and the greed of 
> the Soviet Union) was such that Japan was going to be defeated; the 
> only question was at what cost.  The first bomb did not convince those 
> in power.  Even after the second bomb there were men in the High 
> Command who tried to intercept the Emperor's surrender message, as 
> they were willing to fight to the last Japanese person they could 
> control.
>
> I have the deepest the citizens of Japan who had no control over their 
> government, and who only wanted to raise their families in piece.  But 
> while they were in some ways the victims of their leaders, they were 
> also their enablers, providing the soldiers, making the weapons, 
> unresistingly giving whatever was demanded of them.  They were also 
> the eager supporters of the Japanese expansionist policy, especially 
> in the early days, when the deaths of civilians happened in places 
> like China and Singapore and the Philippines and New Guinea and Korea 
> and...  Breaking their will to continue supporting the War was a 
> necessary part of ending the War.
>
> For those who wish to improve their understanding of the War in the 
> Pacific, I strongly recommend "Japan at War: An Oral History", 
> available at Amazon at 
> http://www.amazon.com/Japan-at-War-Oral-History/dp/1565840399/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-0859248-4214836?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186676568&sr=8-1, 
> and in most English language libraries.  The first hand accounts, most 
> of them from ordinary civilians and lower rank military personnel, 
> helped me to understand how tragic ALL of the War was, not just the 
> two atomic bombings, and also how, without those bombings, Japanese 
> might be on its way to being a dead language, and the Japanese culture 
> crushed beyond recovery.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On 
> Behalf Of Peter Bossew
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 7:42 AM
> To: radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] RE: [AMRSO] On This Day( NY Times) - 
> Observationof Moment of Silence
>
> One crime does not justify another.
>
> pb
>
>
>
>
> Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS) [E] wrote:
>> Should we offer a moment of silence for all those Chinese and Asian
>> civilians killed by the Japanese?
>>
>>
>> -- John
>> John P. Jacobus, MS, CHP
>> Senior Health Physicist
>> National Institutes of Health
>> Division of Radiation Safety
>> 21 Wilson Drive, MSC 6780
>> Bethesda, MD 20892-6780
>> USA
>> Ph. -- 301-496-5774
>> FAX -- 301-496-3544
>> e-mail:  jjacobus at mail.nih.gov
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Johnston, Thomas [mailto:Tom_Johnston at nymc.edu]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:55 AM
>> To: Academic-Medical Radiation Safety Officers listserve;
>> radsafe at radlab.nl
>> Subject: [AMRSO] On This Day( NY Times) - Observation of Moment of
>> Silence
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> On This Day - NY Times
>>
>> On Aug. 9, 1945, the United States exploded a nuclear device over
>> Nagasaki, Japan, instantly killing an estimated 39,000 people.
>>
>> The explosion came three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
>>
>>
>>
>> May we all observe a moment of silence.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
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