Hiroshima, an act of lovelessness

It was a day for market, school, laundry, and unmade beds. The clock showed 8:15 in the morning. On August 06, 1945, approximately 50 people instantly vanished from the world map, pulverized by the uranium bomb dropped by the United States government on the city of Hiroshima, which President Harry Truman treated as "a military base."

In his address to the public, Truman declared: “The world already knows that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. Sixteen hours ago, a United States plane dropped a bomb on Hiroshima, a major Japanese military base. This bomb has more power than 20 tons of TNT. It has more than two thousand times the explosive power of the British bomb.” Grand Slam "This is the largest bomb ever used in military history. With this bomb, we have established a new and revolutionary advance in weapons of destruction, to augment the growing power of our armed forces. These bombs are currently being produced, but even more powerful models are being developed. It is an atomic bomb. It is the use of the basic power of the universe."

The experiment in Hiroshima broke the barrier of the sky as a limit, and three days later, on August 09th, American strategists dropped another bomb on the city of Nagasaki, this one made of plutonium, which killed approximately 40 people around lunchtime. Many more victims followed.

The effects of the "new and revolutionary" method of mass extermination, already inaugurated by the Nazi gas chambers and their incinerators of human bodies, ushered in contemporary times, with the difference that the Nazis were concerned with preserving the vital space where the German Third Reich would reign, which was not and continues not to be the case with the religious fundamentalism of the colonists who made America, not caring whether the world will end or not when they launch the latest in terms of new military-technological innovation.

Today's era was re-inaugurated upon the rubble of bombs, chambers, and ovens. The contemporary world in which we find ourselves was born with the French Revolution of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, ideals that the bourgeoisie wrested from the popular course of the revolution by orchestrating and giving unrestricted support to General Napoleon's coup, which closed the Assembly with his grenadiers.

The past is always visiting the present, and the pandemic is further evidence of this. The technogenocide of the 1930s and 40s left behind a type of irresponsible behavior lacking commitment to preserving life, produced by a strong feeling of a lack of future prospects. The indifference towards the pandemic, which frightens and shocks, may be finding its origins elsewhere. Without a future, there is no point in wasting time on an invisible, tiny, and oily virus. Worldwide, the coronavirus-19 has already claimed 700 lives. In Brazil, the death toll is approaching 100, while picnics, parties, and gatherings in bars, streets, beaches, parks, and squares increase daily.

For a massive number of people, life has become about the present moment, likely driven by the specter that at any moment the entire world, or even just their own, could be blown to pieces by, who knows, some artifact being constructed by the architects of scientific experiments that so effectively serve the violent guarantees of certain powers.

The science that develops the vaccine capable of freeing us all from the confinement that is contrary to the most loving aspect of our sociability is the same science that developed the atomic bomb, the gas chamber, and the incinerator that altered contemporary subjectivity. However, there is a difference, and it lies in the scientists' expectations for the future. In their approach to knowledge, some scientists dedicate their lives to discovering a vaccine and ask, "Why build an atomic bomb?", while others build them out of fascination with the "new and revolutionary" experiment, without asking any questions, without caring about today, and even less about tomorrow. More than ever, science proves that life has sides, and prioritizing life is a matter of choice.