two things that i've been read about this weekend in my free moments. the anniversary of the bombing of hiroshima and anniversary of l.b.j.'s signing of the voting act.
here are some links for you...
department of justice's copy of the voting rights act that enabled the registration of black voters in america.
wikipedia's account of the voting rights act and update on renewals.
account on how hiroshima happened.
ariel views of the bombings effects. and more ariel views here.
the 'rationale' of justification to use nuclear weapons.
today's chewable vitamin
"why was it necessary to drop the nuclear bomb if lemay (the columbus born general who engineered the bombing) was burning up Japan? and he went on from Tokyo to firebomb other cities. 58% of Yokohama. Yokohama is roughly the size of Cleveland. 58% of Cleveland destroyed. Tokyo is roughly the size of New York. 51% percent of New York destroyed. 99% of the equivalent of Chattanooga, which was Toyama. 40% of the equivalent of Los Angeles, which was Nagoya. this was all done before the dropping of the nuclear bomb, which by the way was dropped by lemay's command. proportionality should be a guideline in war. killing 50% to 90% of the people of 67 Japanese cities and then bombing them with two nuclear bombs is not proportional, in the minds of some people, to the objectives we were trying to achieve...
lemay said, 'if we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.' and I think he's right. he, and i'd say i, were behaving as war criminals. lemay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. but what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?"
~ robert mcnamara
former secretary of defense
taken from a movie i think every american should see- the fog of war.
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