Today I read in My Home Page in http://www.myway.com an historic event that had slipped my mind. Today, August 6, 1945 an 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. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. One life killed is one life too many.

A few days later another bomb was dropped at Nagasaki and many more people were wiped out from the surface of the Earth. I think it was Oppenheimer, one of the scientists that was involved in the making of the Atomic Bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico, after seeing the devastation of the bombed, remarked: "Today science has sinned."

It is the first and only time an atomic bomb has been used for massive destruction. I sincerely hope it will be the last time. Since that time the following countries developed their own atomic bombs: the then Soviet Union, France, Great Britain, Germany, India and Pakistan. Recently Iran and North Korea are on their way in joining this dangerous club. We are living on the very edge of total annihilation in a world menaced by international terrorists.

Apocalypse Now?

Omar.-