The "Genshi-Bakudan" -- Mooning Life

August 6. If I am not mistaken, today marks the latest anniversary of the morning back in 1945 when all life on Earth was thrown under a pall of eternal threat, the day of of the "Genshi-Bakudan." Development was completed on an ultimate means of mass killing and destruction, the atom bomb, and it was successfully tested on the people and structures oF Hiroshima and a few days later on Nagasaki. It was a case of mankind mooning the miracle of life on earth, plain for all the universe to see (or at least that part of it nearest us).

I have been to Hiroshima not once but twice, both times during the Japanese observances of that occasion, and also I went to Negasaki in the same year of the first visit, in 1959, 14 years after the bombings. And that was in addition to being stationed on Okinawa earlier, in 1954, only 9 years after fighting ravaged that unlucky little island.

I have never been anywhere else overseas. Still, if I was interested in running for President, to meet that bogus "foreign policy experience" requirement I wouldn't hesitate to rely on just those three ventures to Japan (along with also criss-crossing Canada several times). It means that life threw me on the topmost part of the pile of the most important events to be remembered from the century just passed, and also for any other, so far.