Hello Letter to the Editors:

The global community reaches its 78th year of the nuclear age. What arose out of scientists' minds, militarists' strategies, and political strongmen ambition (Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman) brings the global community to the point of no return.

The bomb that exploded over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 and then again another explosion over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945, was preceded by the Trinity explosion in Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945,
(https://www.afnwc.af.mil/About-Us/History/Trinity-Nuclear-Test/),

Those detonations caused the immediate death of over 200,000 people and began long term exposure of radiological material which continues to harm the Human genome and historic recollection (https://thebulletin.org/2020/08/counting-the-dead-at-hiroshima-and-nagas...).

During the G7 Summit in May 2023, I walked the lockdown streets of Hiroshima, Japan.  I was struck by the limited imagination of the leadership represented at that summit, and that regenerated a notion that the people of the world deserve leaders who can envision a better world.

The faux notion that technology can bring wars to an end continues today with arms races, military budgets, and political debates, which exhaust Humanity's resources and imagination. With militarists' dispersions of full spectrum domination and political leadership falling short of their democratic duties, the people must arise as a species to truly explore the beauty and grace given to us.

My prayer is that Humanity, a global community, flying about space and time on the only planet known to possess sustainable life, can refocus its knowledge and wisdom on how vulnerable life is. The Human Race can move forward through collaboration, integrity, and unity to the great unknown.

Peace, Mark D.  Stansbery
1101 Bryden Road
Columbus, Ohio 43205 USA
614-252-9255
walk@igc.org