[nathanbedford]

Hiroshima signaled a failure of humankind, not just of the United States. The growth of technology has far outstripped our ability to use it wisely.

Hiroshima, a failure of the United States? Intone a lie often enough and even the millions on both sides who did not die in the invasion but survived because America did not shrink from righteously inflicting devastation upon its fanatical enemies, might someday come to believe it. Here is the truth of it:

America was right, Japan was wrong.

Japan was a war criminal nation, America was innocent.

Japan brought the carnage upon itself, America waged defensive war honorably.

The atomic bomb saved lives.

Humanity's best chance of survival lies in creating taboos against the manufacture of nuclear weapons

And those who break the taboo and manufacture those nasty weapons should be rebuked and strongly admonished and, if necessary, shunned.

[GladesGuru]

"And those who break the taboo and manufacture those nasty weapons should be rebuked and strongly admonished and, if necessary, shunned."

Then those who own such weapons will, as the Chinese like to say, "be deprived of existence".

Your line, quoted above, seems strongly, if not completely derived from Christian pacifists such as the Quakers and Amish.

Might I point out that until Christians came to power, many had a simple job description - martyr.

An earlier job description was lion food.

Our ancestors created a nation which became the most powerful in history and we must keep it that way.