OK, back to Hiroshima. It’s somewhat ironic that the U.S. is the only country that has actually used a nuclear bomb on somebody. This is seriously a grave atrocity. I wonder why we decided to use it against civilians? If anything, we ought to have nuked the Emperor [or Tojo]. I guess the elite really [do] protect the elite, [war or no war].

Oh, I remembered what the first part of my dream was: a retelling of The Lord of the Rings. Say, if Saruman got to the Shire, disguised as Gandalf, or some such perturbation. Anyway.

The thing with nuking a civilian population: this is probably ultimately the reason why terrorism has become rampant. If we broke the rules, who are we to [enforce them]? I really wonder, if some of those soldiers had been given a chance to see how violent the future [would] become due to the dropping of the bomb, if maybe they would’ve volunteered to storm Honshu instead.

How different the Cold War would [have been]. How different [the U.S.] would be perceived, if we didn’t [decide that our first target for atomic annihilation would be tens of thousands of civilians].

[In my dream], I think LotR was melded with “The Legend of Zelda”, too.

Well, was that it? There really aren’t any answers. I wonder how quickly the time will go? Hopefully, I’ll be back in California soon. (And every time I say it, my old pessimism creeps back in, makes me think I’ll never live there again.) God, how I would like to be happy.