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59 years ago today, a US B-29 Liberator bomber, the Enola Gay, piloted by Lieutenant Colonel Paul W Tibbets, took off from Tinian, in the American-held Marianas Islands. Accompanied by two sister aircraft, its target was the Japanese industrial city of Hiroshima.

At approximately 8.15am in the morning, the atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy exploded over the city, one of only two times in recorded history that such a device has been used. Over 60,000 people were to perish from the explosion, with a similar number suffering and surviving horrifying injuries. The world had officially entered the nuclear age.

Expecting a "rest in peace" for the victims of this horrifying "tragedy"? Well, they won't get one from me. I have absolutely no sympathy for these victims, nor those who were to perish in a similar way in Nagasaki a mere three days later. Or any of Japan's 672,000 civilian dead in World War Two. No, they don't bloody deserve it. Not after what the Japanese army did in World War Two and what the current Japanese government still shamefully refuses to make any redress for. Or even, for the damned matter, to properly educate their citizens on the issue.

In short, I see those victims as karma. Japan did so much worse in China, despite not using atomic weapons. They had beheading contests in Nanking, publicly reported in domestic newspapers. can you imagine the barbarity? It is only divine justice that it had to suffer such horrifying attacks as Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If Japan is still the only nation ever to suffer nuclear attacks, it is also the only combatant nation in modern times to use biological weapons, and on a helpless civilian population too. Nor was any concerted effort ever made to admit and redress the wrongs done in World War Two by post-war Japanese governments - a marked contrast to the situation in Germany. An eye for an eye and we'll all be blind? No, this is the real world and it is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Or two eyes for one and your lips for my tooth.

Not to mention that the atomic bombs were in fact the most bloodless way of the most devastating war yet known to mankind. Want to contest this point? I'm ready any time.

Well, aside from this, today was quite fun. National Day celebrations! Nah. Instead it was 4 hours of bridge, hearts and dai dee in a secluded classroom at the very end of the campus. Ah, good times...

And that makes me all ready to celebrate the nation's 39th birthday!