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"Pope calls for global nuclear ban on anniversary of Nagasaki - Reuters 9 August 2015
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis called for a global ban on nuclear weapons on Sunday as he commemorated the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Francis told the crowd in Saint Peter's Square after his weekly Angelus address that "in war there are only losers, the only way to win a war is not to fight it".
The bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9, 1945, "have become the symbol of the enormous destructive power of man when he makes a distorted use of the progress of science and technology", the pope said.
He said the "tragic" bombings constitute "a permanent appeal to humanity to repudiate war for ever and to ban nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction"."
I did not realize that the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on 9 August 70 years ago, the day Singapore gained its independent!
Lessons for me are:
1. war is senseless. Waged normally by politicians who know not what they are doing. Most started with the stupidest reason. Due to some PERSONAL reasons. Ya?;
2. when I was young I adored the 'heroes' who killed their enemies. e.g. the Yankee killing the Nazi, the Chinese killing the Japanese, etc. As I grew older, I realised that they were ALL heroes as well as VICTIMS!! Period!;
3. of course whoever invaded another country must be resisted and be driven out at all costs. Such is the concept of sovereign power and nationhood. Even if the invaders did it for their own survival like Japan due to its limited resources in its homeland. When a nation is facing extinction, can other nations lend a helping hand? If the world did not care, then it is understandable why the invading nation will do what it had to do to survive.
Can the resources of Mother Earth be shared among neighbours? Like the current 'hot zone' of islands in the South China Sea between China and some of the Asean countries and Japan? If not, should war be the answer?
In the Pope's opinion, obviously not. YET, to the politicians, it may well be the solution!
Of course, deploying atomic bomb or nuclear weapons is a different story!
"Pope calls for global nuclear ban on anniversary of Nagasaki - Reuters 9 August 2015
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis called for a global ban on nuclear weapons on Sunday as he commemorated the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Francis told the crowd in Saint Peter's Square after his weekly Angelus address that "in war there are only losers, the only way to win a war is not to fight it".
The bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9, 1945, "have become the symbol of the enormous destructive power of man when he makes a distorted use of the progress of science and technology", the pope said.
He said the "tragic" bombings constitute "a permanent appeal to humanity to repudiate war for ever and to ban nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction"."
I did not realize that the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on 9 August 70 years ago, the day Singapore gained its independent!
Lessons for me are:
1. war is senseless. Waged normally by politicians who know not what they are doing. Most started with the stupidest reason. Due to some PERSONAL reasons. Ya?;
2. when I was young I adored the 'heroes' who killed their enemies. e.g. the Yankee killing the Nazi, the Chinese killing the Japanese, etc. As I grew older, I realised that they were ALL heroes as well as VICTIMS!! Period!;
3. of course whoever invaded another country must be resisted and be driven out at all costs. Such is the concept of sovereign power and nationhood. Even if the invaders did it for their own survival like Japan due to its limited resources in its homeland. When a nation is facing extinction, can other nations lend a helping hand? If the world did not care, then it is understandable why the invading nation will do what it had to do to survive.
Can the resources of Mother Earth be shared among neighbours? Like the current 'hot zone' of islands in the South China Sea between China and some of the Asean countries and Japan? If not, should war be the answer?
In the Pope's opinion, obviously not. YET, to the politicians, it may well be the solution!
Of course, deploying atomic bomb or nuclear weapons is a different story!
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