At What Price...?

I visited A-Bomb Dorm and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum today. Shocking images and mementos of the a-bomb victims reminded me of the Holocaust museum in D.C.. Seeing how the atomic bomb was developed and used to turn Hiroshima into one of the most tragetic places in the world, I thought it is always the harmless individuals who were victimized in a tragedy like this... Either the Holocaust or Hiroshima, it shouldn't be possible that insanities of murdering be tolerated or justified during wars...

In Hiroshima, the first a-bomb was dropped, but at what price? Two billion dollars that is spent on the Manhattan project? An end to the world war? Those 140,000 people who died from the bomb? Possibility of nuclear wars that can lead to the termination of our own kind and many other species?

Obviously the price of the lesson comes tremendous, but that's why it has to be learned so that the tragetic hisotry won't repeat itself.

Finally, the words of a photographer who took pictures right after the a-bomb was dropped have stood out in my memory - it took almost 30 minutes to encourage myself to take the first picture. Then, I became calm. So I got close to the subject. I tried to see the finder to realize my teers covering it and couldn't see well.