A00176 - Oppenheimer and the Historical Importance of Unit 731


It may be one of those "coincidences" that simply just occur. However, yesterday, the New York Times highlighted the obituary for Seiichi Morimura and reading it changed my perspective of the horror that was unleashed by those depicted in the movie "Oppenheimer"


The significance of Seiichi Morimura is that he exposed the Japanese biological warfare unit that was working on biological weapons for use against the United States and American armed forces in the weeks before the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.  As revealed by Mr. Morimura, if the Americans had not dropped the bomb, the Japanese biological weapons would likely have been deployed resulting in the gruesome deaths of thousands of Americans, potentially even American civilians.  

Reading about the Japanese biological warfare unit is chilling and may cause one to reassess the ethical aspects involved in creating and using the atomic bomb.  

Peace,

Everett "Skip" Jenkins
Fairfield, California
August 4, 2023

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I am a regular viewer of NHK News, the Japanese news program.  Every August, NHK News typically has some in-depth reporting about the aging and diminishing survivors of the atomic bomb blasts that occurred at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  The memories of those devastations still haunt the Japanese people and influence the Japanese aversion to any type of militarization.

In light of the impact that the creation of nuclear weapons has had on global history, it is perhaps only fitting that the film Oppenheimer be seen in this month of August 2023.  


It is also important that a deeper understanding on the motivations of those who created the first atomic weapons are recalled and analyzed


As we recently read in Autobiography of a Yogi

"The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind," Lao-tzu taught.  "The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning."  (Page 496)

As seen annually on NHK News, this year's festival of mourning will soon begin.

Peace,

Everett "Skip" Jenkins

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