Posthuman Blues

Hiroshima Film Cover-up Exposed

"More recently, McGovern declared that Americans should have seen the damage wrought by the bomb. 'The main reason it was classified was ... because of the horror, the devastation,' he said. Because the footage shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was hidden for so long, the atomic bombings quickly sank, unconfronted and unresolved, into the deeper recesses of American awareness, as a costly nuclear arms race, and nuclear proliferation, accelerated." (Via UFO Reflections.)

And still we live in a nation where vehicles sport stickers advocating we "Bomb Mecca" and urging the patriotic to "Nuke the Bastards." This empathic vacuum, sick and absurd, is far more dangerous than the nuclear weapons themselves.