A grim anniversary: 75 years since Hiroshima. Has the...

Diva A grim anniversary: 75 years since Hiroshima. Has the world learned the lessons from that attack? Well, it was the first and so far only time an atomic weapon was used; is this enough though?

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😃 Javier Good Reading: "Train from Hiroshima" Talks about a man who survived the Hiroshima blast just to take a train to Nagasaki the next day. The fact that no nuclear device has been use in conflict since then gives me hope.

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Diva I will look out for this book! And yes, we have to hold on to hope, wherever we find it.

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🗨️ Fui I always struggle with that idea of collective learning. Why? Because there is no collective brain to hold the collective memory. History is not a collective memory we share, just an abstraction held by individuals and their individual brains. There is no we to remember, no we that forgets. That's why stupid mistakes happen again and again.

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Diva Well, I think that some countries/governments have learned lessons. I am thinking in particular of Germany and Japan, both of them have recognised the futility of war. I totally understand the history behind this though. Germany ensures that its full history and role in WW2 is taught in schools, hopefully so that those horrors are never forgotten, never repeated.

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Nick S. The Pacific Proving Grounds was pretty brutal to the Marshallese living on and around Bikini Atoll. Although all things considered, the fact that humans haven't wiped themselves off the face of the planet with nukes is impressive in its own right.

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Diva Indeed. Maybe more by luck than design...

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