Is it just me?

Is it just me, or as the world really gone mad. A few weeks ago I was asked "if there was one thing in history that I could change, what would it be"? After giving the question much consideration were does one start to right a wrong from the past.

Short of writing a article to compete with War and Peace. Go as far back in known history as you can and you will find countless reference’s to man’s inhumanity to man, You might choose to start with Cain and Abel now slowly work forward to New York’s 9/11 or London’s 7/7. Far cleverer people then myself have debated the reasons as to why man cannot live with his brother man, by reason of religion, ethnic background, colour or creed or shear bloody minded attitude to another point of view.

The answer to the question I was asked, "Hiroshima" Surely, something that was planned over a period of time. A bomb that was developed from scratch on the basis of physics principal. Tested and documented effects of the outcome were known, if, but more likely when it was used. The decision to drop the bomb took hours of debate. Having released the bomb it took approximately 38 seconds to ignition. The result was to kill a total of 70,000 immediately and a further 48,000 within ten minutes of exploding at the epicenter. Since then a further 248,000 (estimated) have died as a result of radiation induced illnesses. Three days later it was considered prudent to repeat the operation again, this time over Nagasaki. With a further estimated 260,000 deaths.

This being just one example of the insanity of war, or any conflict that throws country against country or tribe against tribe, one man against another for his belief or his opinion. But anyone that has stood at ground zero, or as seen the permanent reminded of the bell tower in Hiroshima, cannot help to be moved, too ask the question WHY. For something that took just over half a minute of time. The result was total devastation. To this day, this one moment in history remains responsible for the highest death toll of any single action.
Thank God, no one as chosen to repeat the Atomic or nuclear option since, and hopefully never will.

Yet to-day there are conflicts throughout the world still claiming the lives of non-combatants, women and children. From the Iraq, to Afghanistan, from conflicts of the past, Korea to Vietnam. The misguided ideology of the terrorist to endeavour to control by fear. So whether it be Country against Country or cause against cause. And still the senseless futility continues. Will we ever learn.