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In 2024 I read the book Hiroshima by John Hersey which was the first time in possibly 20 plus years I had spent reading about World War Two. When I was in junior high and high school, I was obsessed with that period of history, whether it was through video games, movies, or television, it was all I liked to study. My grandfather served in the Pacific Theater on the U.S.S. Drayton as a Signalman, which heavily influenced my decision to join the military after I graduated high school.
Spending time looking through his photo scrapbook that included his initiation into the Domain of Neptunus Rex as he crossed the equator left me with a romanticized version of this history. He had been dead for a while and all I had to go on was what he left behind, and I constantly ignored my dad telling me that he (my grandfather) would have taken my dad to their fishing cabin in Canada. Thank God I have lived long enough to be ashamed of supporting our military industrial complex, and the war crimes they have been committing.
Anyway, back to the book.
In this almost second by second account of what happens if the US were to experience and respond to a nuclear bomb, it really makes you sick with how much can go wrong in such a short time. The fragility around this, and the fragility of what it takes to maintain our nuclear arsenal displays how truly weak our leaders are to result to this kind of destruction. In short:
These weapons should not exist.
The infrastructure around these weapons should not exist.
The people leading the country right now should never have access to this kind of destructive power.
These are things I have believed for a few years, but, this book will cement it in the long run.
10/10, this should be a must read for everyone.
George of Sylvania 
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