{"id":1574,"date":"2003-08-06T10:27:04","date_gmt":"2003-08-07T00:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/06\/58-years-ago-today\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:46:33","slug":"58-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/06\/58-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"58 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  August 6th marks the 58th anniversary of the A-bomb being dropped on Hiroshima&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  Arguably the bombing was the most significant event of the 20th Century, and one of the most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/08\/05\/nyt.kristof\/index.html\" title=\"Blood on our hands?\">controversial decisions<\/a> ever made by a world leader. In a matter of moments, Japan and America were inexorably linked by one of the greatest horrors of history, which neither side really wanted to look in the face.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  As early as 1940, Japan was working on its own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/nuke\/guide\/japan\/nuke\/\" title=\"Nuclear Weapons Program - Japan\">nuclear bomb<\/a>, but after the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the country officially expressed its revulsion at nuclear arms and vowed never to acquire them. Times change. <a href=\"http:\/\/famulus.msnbc.com\/FamulusIntl\/reuters08-05-011513.asp?reg=PACRIM\" title=\"Hiroshima worries as A-bomb memories fade\">Debate<\/a> has arisen in Japan as to whether or not they should seek to develop a nuclear weapons program in light of recent developments in North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  Ironically (and very likely coincidentally), top U.S. officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/08\/05\/1455235\" title=\"U.S. Marks Hiroshima Anniversary By Holding Top Secret Summit to Discuss Expanding Nation\u2019s Nuclear Arsenal\">met secretly<\/a> this week in Omaha to discuss expanding America&#8217;s nuclear arsenal.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plastic.com\/article.html;sid=03\/08\/06\/03273134\" title=\"Those Who Forget The Blast Are Doomed To Repeat It\">Plastic: Those Who Forget The Blast Are Doomed To Repeat It<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipixel.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/08\/06\/august_6_1945.html\" title=\"Aug. 6th, 1945\">Jeremy<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 6th marks the 58th anniversary of the A-bomb being dropped on Hiroshima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}