Word: hiroshima
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...early as October 1944, they made inevitable the occupation of Eastern as well as Western Europe; as soon as they tampered with the internal affairs of Vietnam and Korea as early as 1945, they insured Communist support for national liberation movements in those countries; when they agreed to bomb Hiroshima to terrorize the Russians in Potsdam as well as to defeat the Japanese in Japan, they engendered the cost and deadliness of a prolonged arms race. Far from being victimized and put upon by Cold War hysteria, America had probably done more to create and sustain that hysteria than anyone...
...which the Kennedy government inherited from the Cold Warriors was the doctrine of preventive warfare. This doctrine, in turn, was conceived with the psychological potentialities of the atomic bomb fully in mind. To repeat an important point, there is growing evidence that the decision to use the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was made within the framework of the Potsdam negotiations, not the then-foreseeable Japanese capitulation...
...Aime, Je T'Aime is a frosty movie about love, life and time travel directed by Alain Resnais. In Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, Resnais evolved an elliptical style of editing that included streams of consciousness, unconsciousness and dreams, all edited so tightly that the audience had to shift rapidly between tenses and dimensions. This technique made his films intellectual teasers, but it also tended to weaken the rather fragile narrative line. The scenario of Je T'Aime has been almost completely overwhelmed. It was supposed to be a kind of comic-strip fantasy about...
...killing of 100,000 at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a tragedy of mankind: it was done by nuclear weapons...
...risk: such adventurous human gambles, perhaps, as graduated gestures of disarmament, to encourage the larger success of strategic arms limitation agreements and other rational attempts toward mutual reduction of terror among nuclear powers. Such options, for a free nation as for a free man, still remain open. Even with Hiroshima and Nagasaki burned forever in the memory, there persists the hope for new opportunities and fresh choices...