Pensieri di un lunatico minore

Hiroshima

It is difficult to grasp the true measure of destruction human kind is capable of inflicting on one another and the planet as a whole. The story of lost photographs from Hiroshima demonstrate this more vividly:

Although the images taken by the Physical Damage Division don’t depict the human suffering of the atomic bomb they do provide a vital function. They say: this is what we, mankind, are capable of unleashing upon each other. Like ruins, they refer back into time (this is what we have done, are capable of doing) while simultaneously warning of a future we have not yet encountered (they give substance to our terror of the use of another nuclear weapon).

The devastation is almost eloquent in its totality.