 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 first brought the possibility of nuclear war to the attention of men of science and even of some few politicians. A few months after the bombing of the two Japanese cities, I made a speech in the House of Lords pointing out the likelihood of a general nuclear war and the certainty of its causing universal disaster if it occurred. I forecast and explained the making of nuclear bombs of far greater power than those used upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, fusion as against the old fission bombs, the present hydrogen bombs in fact.
Source：The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.3 chap. 1: Return to England, 1969
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The Boeing B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb (Little Boy) on Hiroshima was nicknamed ‘Enola Gay’ (the name of the mother of the captain, Colonel Paul Tibbets). It seems that the mother (Enola Gay) was lightly ‘glued’ to the idea of dropping (giving birth to) her son (Little Boy = Colonel Tibbets) on Hiroshima, and was not at all aware that a single atomic bomb would kill hundreds of thousands of people. Or perhaps they were aware of it, but were conscious that mass murdering the Japs, a yellow race inferior to their own, was no big deal in order to save the lives of the American people?
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