August 6, 2020 7:17 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, August 6, 2020
Today is the 55th anniversary of President Johnson’s signing of the Voting Rights Act. It’s also the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima. The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named “Little Boy” was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan where an estimated 140,000 people were killed.
Peaches
- Perhaps the most controversial signing for Kemp this year.
- Kemp vetoed 1 Glynn PD measure but this one will be on the ballot in November.
- Georgia businesses get COVID-19 liability shield
- Third party mailers muddle absentee ballot process in Georgia
- Ralston asks U.S. Senate for $500 billion aid package for states.
- Georgia Legal Community Owes Debt of Gratitude to Rep. John Lewis
- Georgia Venues And Live Industry Make Plea To ‘Save Our Stages’
- Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifts Georgia toward GOP
- Rural Georgia County Has Nation’s Highest Rate Of ‘Youth Disconnection’
- Georgia sets higher processing fees, out-of-state sales with new hemp law.
Jimmy Carter
- Shutting Off Water And Power At Homes That Throw Large Parties
- The largest ad buy ever by a presidential candidate.
- Rand Paul: Republicans should apologize to Obama
- Your Income Predicts How Well You Can Socially Distance
- Lawmakers demand explanation for cutting federal funding to states for National Guard deployments
- Racism is a ‘public health crisis,’ bias training for state employees required here.
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Seventy Five years ago, we nukedHiroshima. The world has not been the same.
The use of two nuclear bombs against Japan was not done casually.
Up to that point, Allied soldiers had found the Japanese to be a difficult adversary. This was in part due to Japan’s belief in “bushido”, based in ancient samurai values. In light of World War II combat up to that moment: “Despite being outnumbered and in horrific conditions, many soldiers refused to surrender. As indicated by Dixon and colleagues, “They continued to honor the Bushido code, believing that “to rush into the thick of battle and to be slain in it, is easy enough… but, it is true courage to live when it is right to live, and to die only when it is right to die.”
Faced with that, the Allies realized that to completely end the Pacific War, they would be required to take the Japanese home islands. And be faced with such resistance all the way. Harry Truman made the decision to use the nuclear bomb based in part with this reality.
The most important matter is that nuclear weapons have not been used in combat since that time.