Inori no Nagasaki

We decided to celebrate the end of the first school quarter by spending a weekend in Nagasaki. Ruby and I just hopped on a train and we arrived in less than two hours - I think I'm going to enjoy Japan's railway system. 

The first day was a somber - if grim - pilgrimage through the  "Peace Course" - the cluster of museums and parks that commemorate the atomic bombing of the city.  It is a bit depressing, but these difficult moments have to be confronted.

I'm sort of a military otaku, but I never liked nuclear weapons. From a tactical standpoint - they're just too messy. You're likely to harm your own troops and resources in the process of employing them (and poison the terrain, which sort of moots the point of tactics). The strategic "options" that nukes give you (apocalypse or not apocalypse) are so inflexible and horrifying that they can't be used as leverage. Meanwhile, their very presence makes the world a very dangerous place. So, I never liked the ghastly things.