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Hiroshima Seventy Seven Years Since August 6th 1945

Hiroshima – seventy seven years since August 6th, 1945 Given the nuclear weaponry arsenal today August 6th, 2022, our collective ability to lay waste major metropolitan areas would make unleashing atomic warfare synonymous with the ways and means to annihilate, decimate, eliminate, et cetera avast swath of the biosphere, nevertheless... Once again, I take momentary pause to contemplate horrific event regarding unleashed atomic warfare activating nuclear brinkmanship, hence time to trot out a poem written initially some years ago courtesy yours truly. Robert Oppenheimer manned "The Manhattan Project",  a top secret World War II mission,                    which constituted "Little Boy" codename for a uranium gun-type atomic bomb dropped at 0815 exploded 580 metres above civilians with 15 kiloton blast yield reduced 400 year old city to dust Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot/ bombardier of the Enola Gay, (the Boeing B-29 Superfortress unleashed nuclear warfare seventy seven years ago today) gives cause for this baby boomer to revisit mentally, the annihilation, extermination, incineration, obliteration... when the first of two storied Japanese enclaves pulverized vividly underscores how trifling my current bout with dysthymia, hysteria, melancholia... (from figurative northern exposure courtesy twin peaks) contrasted with sinister thermonuclear reaction malevolent evil tower ushered thermonuclear age epitomizing coup d'état nada so graceful spelled maximum radiation fallout, viz collateral military mutilation though unwelcome vision wielded hell, instantaneous maelstrom poised mankind to be cured, roasted, skewered analogous as burnt offerings subsequent generations of victims who survived atrocious, egregious, hellacious, judicious slaughter can only poorly be described by this mortal with curable bacterial/viral infection aghast at such wanton killing, more-so via weapons of mass destruction more devastatingly grisly than those "experimental" bombs loosed upon the innocent population, whereby 75,000 people killed or fatally injured with 65% of casualties nine years of age and younger, whence offspring of survivors evinced excessive genetic anomalies  with fiery windy surface (think towering infernos) temperatures topping 4,000°C  upon terrain hallowed by ghastly horrible deathly dominance impressing silhouettes of victims analogous to dark shadows amidst razed structural remnants ground zero birthed sinister mushroom cloud wickedly, ominously, and eerily loomed.

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