Very innocuous appear to be the words in the title of our blog today, right? What do you think these apparently innocent, merely descriptive words mean? Some title of a Charlie Chaplin film? Sorry to have to disillusion you!
Well, these are the names of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 7 and August 9. The Little Boy and the Fat Man caused horrific destruction. Not only the military garrison deployed there was routed but more than two lakhs of civilian population died as well. For generations continued the ill effects caused by the mushroom clouds the atomic fissure generated!
August 15 was the day, the worst in the Japanese history, when the samurai spirit had to bow down to the by then emergent super power! Due to the pernicious power of the Little Boy, Fat Man! Such vicious ways of 'manufacturing consent', to quote Noam Chomsky's title, were yet again tried during the Vietnam war and the use of the Napalm bomb!
Fortunately, the 1945 'Pacific' (how very ironic, right?) war tricks have so far not been repeated anywhere across the globe, though often crises the world over have almost led to a repeat performance. Actually, mankind no longer needs the vicious atom bombs to destroy it. Worse ways such as climate collapse have been invented! In the meanwhile, here are deep condolences to all those who suffered the pernicious weapon, and its vile effects for generations!
Pratima@ "The bad man desires arbitrary power," maintained John Rawls, "What movés the evil man is the love of injustice."
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