War No More - IV

Enola Gay
You should have stayed
at home yesterday


WAR NO MORE - IV: OMD!

OMG? No. OMD! Or rather, in my common present, short for one of my favorite curses: O My Dog!* Originally, it abbreviates for Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, the British synthpop band. Their 1980 anti-war song Enola Gay, embedded above, refers to the winged superfortress that carried the first of the only two atomic bombs ever used in recorded history of human warfare.

Summing up that fateful day, the 6ixth of August in 1945: 64 kilos of 89% enriched Uranium-235, attaining critical mass whilst in free-fall, produced a little less than 800 grams of fissile material, of which, ultimately, less than one gram converted into approximately 60 terajoule of energy, equal to 15 kilotons of TNT, according to the well-known mass-energy-equivalence equation E = mc², thereby flattening the city of Hiroshima, killing a multitude and wrapping the Earth in one of the darkest man-made shadows to date.

Gautama blinked and Albert wept.

Whether we adhere to official stories or not, may we learn lessons from our common past to never repeat certain acts or actions, here and now, then and there.


link out to OMD

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More War No More to follow
for as long as we choose to become
divided, opposed and prodded like cattle.


* To me O My Dog! serves to curse without offending any of my religious brothers and sisters, to curse without treading on the feet of the light that shines within. As for our beloved furry best friends, I laud them for settling most of their territorial disputes the old-fashioned way: by means of exquisite bladder control and dropping less-atomic bombs here and there. O My Dog - feel free to use that.


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.: peace or perish :.


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Satyr Barbarossa (cc) 2015