tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137857716187567509.post7620269766033390405..comments2024-01-18T02:47:12.669-08:00Comments on Tregear Vean: The A bomb? Revjeanrolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12744131101249601856noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137857716187567509.post-21982283174565971622015-08-06T22:57:21.456-07:002015-08-06T22:57:21.456-07:00I can remember in the Army, being educated about t...I can remember in the Army, being educated about the benefits of having a nuclear deterrent. I listened and even wrote essays about it, but the inhumanity and horror wasn't given the priority - the emphasis was on how it had prevented another world war, because if it was used, than everyone would be the loser. It was also about surviving a nuclear explosion and being able to fight and operate in those conditions - not that I was ever sure that we'd have time to do anything but survive - or morale would have been destroyed by the destruction around us.<br /><br />I came to the view the nuclear as deterrent to war was both immoral and obscene - but kept my mouth shut, as being subject to military discipline, this would have been regarded as dissent.<br /><br />Nowadays, I can openly support nuclear disarmament with gusto. I'm only too aware of the consequences of even a single use of a nuclear weapon, which are hundreds of times more powerful than the atom bombs dropped on Japan.<br /><br />No to Nuclear in any form.UKViewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18114944341930758335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137857716187567509.post-25470559679297843242015-08-06T03:57:26.462-07:002015-08-06T03:57:26.462-07:00I joined CND and attended it's first inaugural...I joined CND and attended it's first inaugural meeting in Rochdale..it was before I went to college so I must have been very young...but old enough to know how I felt! Revjeanrolthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12744131101249601856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137857716187567509.post-21589086725560325382015-08-06T03:32:35.930-07:002015-08-06T03:32:35.930-07:00One of the few good things which came out of that ...One of the few good things which came out of that terrible act of destruction was the birth of CND.<br />I still remember my parents' horrified reaction to the news of the two bombs, though as you say, it was many years before the full affects were realised.<br />I lost two uncles in the 2nd world war but neither of them was in the far East. I can imagine the relief of those who were, when the news of the bombing became known. But nothing can ever justify the use of such a horrendous means to an end.<br />All war is terrible and Nuclear war unthinkable. <br />I live in hope that mankind has learned something.Ray Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09209429097744326143noreply@blogger.com